
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female
February 14, 1966 (59 years old)
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Jessica Lingman Yu
- Jessica Lingmin Yu
- ג׳סיקה יו
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 Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory".
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Known For
Acting
Directing

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Director
2025

Long Bright River
Director
2025

Quiz Lady
Director
2023

Citadel
Director
2023

The Recruit
Director
2022

Only Murders in the Building
Director
2021

Walker
Director
2021

Ratched
Director
2020

Hollywood
Director
2020

The Morning Show
Director
2019

Stumptown
Director
2019

Bluff City Law
Executive Producer, Director
2019






