Jessica Yu
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-02-14 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Jessica Lingman Yu
Jessica Lingmin Yu
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Jessica Yu
Biography
Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy A...
Acting
2008
as Self
Production
2004
as Director
1996
as Director
1996
as Writer
1996
as Editor
2008
as Director
2008
as Author
2007
as Director
2007
as Writer
2011
as Director
2012
as Director
2023
as Director
1996
1993
as Director
2014
as Director
2014
as Producer
1996
1996
1996
2007
as Editor
2016
as Director
2017
as Director
1998
as Director
2012
as Director
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as Director
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