Jessica Yu
Directing
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.
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tv56 Days
2026
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tvLong Bright River
2025
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movieQuiz Lady
2023
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tvCitadel
2023
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tvThe Recruit
2022
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tvWalker
2021
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tvRatched
2020
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tvHollywood
2020
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tvThe Morning Show
2019
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tvStumptown
2019
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tvBluff City Law
2019
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tvFosse/Verdon
2019
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tvThe Rookie
2018
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tvSorry for Your Loss
2018
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tvTen Days in the Valley
2017
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movieMaria Bamford: Old Baby
2017
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tv13 Reasons Why
2017
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tvPure Genius
2016
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tvThis Is Us
2016
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tvBillions
2016
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movieForeveryone.net
2016
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tvAmerican Crime
2015
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tvThe Affair
2014
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movieMisconception
2014
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movieMeet Mr Toilet
2012
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tvAmerican Horror Story
2011
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movieLast Call at the Oasis
2011
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tvCastle
2009
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moviePing Pong Playa
2008
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tvIn Treatment
2008
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movieProtagonist
2007
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tvGrey's Anatomy
2005
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tvThe Lyon's Den
2003
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tvMister Sterling
2003
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tvAmerican Dreams
2002
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tvThe West Wing
1999
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movieThe Living Museum
1998
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movieBetter Late
1996
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tvER
1994
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The Conductor
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tvBluff City Law
2019
Executive Producer
movieMisconception
2014
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