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Jessie Nelson
Los Angeles, California, USA
Jessie Nelson wrote, directed and produced Corrina Corrina and I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn. She co-created and executive produced Sara Bareilles' Little Voice for Bad Robot and A…
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Jessie Nelson wrote, directed and produced Corrina Corrina and I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn. She co-created and executive produced Sara Bareilles' Little Voice for Bad Robot and Apple TV. Among her other directing credits are Curb Your Enthusiasm and Love, The Coopers. Her writing credits also include Step Mom and The Story of Us. Nelson wrote the Broadway musical Waitress with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, which went on to the West End in London. Nelson directed Alice By Heart, which she co-wrote with Steven Sater with music by Duncan Sheik at the National Theater Connections Program in London and at MCC in NYC. She began her career as an actress at the Public Theater, working with the experimental theater, Mabou Mines, and acting with the New York Shakespeare Festival. Nelson is executive producing Nikesh Shukula's Brown Baby and Glennon Doyle's Untamed for television. She wrote the children's book Labracadabra.
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2025
Oh, Hi!
Movie The Voice of Sandra James
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2023
Waitress: The Musical
Movie Producer
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2023
American Assassin Amnesiac
Movie Thanks
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2020
Little Voice
TV show Director
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2019
Alice by Heart
Movie Director
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2015
Love the Coopers
Movie Director
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2015
Danny Collins
Movie Producer
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2007
Fred Claus
Movie Producer
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2007
Because I Said So
Movie Producer
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2001
I Am Sam
Movie Screenplay
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2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV show Director
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1999
The Story of Us
Movie Realtor
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1998
Stepmom
Movie Screenplay
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1994
ER
TV show Bite Victim's Mother
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1994
Corrina, Corrina
Movie Director
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1994
Hoggs' Heaven
Movie Poet
More credits
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1993
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Movie Ralph
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1993
The Switch
Movie Elizabeth Garland
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1991
To The Moon, Alice
Movie Director
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1987
Daniel and the Towers
Movie Writer
