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Jessica Yu
New York City, New York, USA
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.…
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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 Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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2026
56 Days
TV show Director
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2025
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Movie Director
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2025
Long Bright River
TV show Director
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2023
Quiz Lady
Movie Director
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2023
Citadel
TV show Director
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2022
The Recruit
TV show Director
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2021
Only Murders in the Building
TV show Director
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2021
Walker
TV show Director
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2020
Ratched
TV show Director
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2020
Hollywood
TV show Director
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2019
The Morning Show
TV show Director
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2019
Stumptown
TV show Director
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2019
Bluff City Law
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Fosse/Verdon
TV show Director
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2018
The Rookie
TV show Director
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2018
Sorry for Your Loss
TV show Director
More credits
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2017
Ten Days in the Valley
TV show Director
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2017
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
Movie Director
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2017
13 Reasons Why
TV show Director
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2016
Pure Genius
TV show Director
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2016
This Is Us
TV show Director
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2016
Billions
TV show Director
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2016
Foreveryone.net
Movie Director
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2015
American Crime
TV show Director
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2014
The Affair
TV show Director
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2014
Misconception
Movie Director
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2012
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Movie Director
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2012
Meet Mr Toilet
Movie Director
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2011
American Horror Story
TV show Director
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2011
Last Call at the Oasis
Movie Director
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2009
Castle
TV show Director
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2008
Capturing Reality
Movie Self
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2008
Ping Pong Playa
Movie Director
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2008
In Treatment
TV show Director
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2007
Protagonist
Movie Director
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2005
Grey's Anatomy
TV show Director
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2004
In the Realms of the Unreal
Movie Director
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2003
The Lyon's Den
TV show Director
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2003
Mister Sterling
TV show Director
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2002
American Dreams
TV show Director
