Acting credits
2
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Jessica Yu
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.5
Moderate attention
TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.
Movies: 15Series: 29Crew credits: 42
TMDB ID: 19509
IMDb ID: nm0950506
Known for: Directing
Born: February 14, 1966
Age: 60
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2025
Years active: 73
Average TMDB rating: 7.26
Wikidata: Q6187572
Also known as
Jessica Lingman Yu • Jessica Lingmin Yu • ג׳סיקה יו
Other jobs
Director (41)Executive Producer (1)
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".
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jessica Yu.
6.2
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Director
2025 Movie
6.7
Quiz Lady
Director
2023 Movie
5.2
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
Director
2017 Movie
Foreveryone.net
Director
2016 Movie
5.0
Misconception
Director
2014 Movie
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Director
2012 Movie
Meet Mr Toilet
Director
2012 Movie
7.4
Last Call at the Oasis
Director
2011 Movie
6.1
Capturing Reality
as Self
2008 Movie
5.8
Ping Pong Playa
Director
2008 Movie
6.9
Protagonist
Director
2007 Movie
7.1
In the Realms of the Unreal
Director
2004 Movie
The Living Museum
Director
1998 Movie
6.4
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Director
1996 Movie
1.0
Better Late
Director
1996 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jessica Yu.
7.0
Long Bright River
Director • 1 eps
2025 Series
6.8
Citadel
Director • 2 eps
2023 Series
7.5
The Recruit
Director • 1 eps
2022 Series
8.5
Only Murders in the Building
Director • 4 eps
2021 Series
7.1
Walker
Director • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.6
Ratched
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
7.2
Hollywood
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
7.7
The Morning Show
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.2
Stumptown
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.5
Bluff City Law
Executive Producer • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.1
Fosse/Verdon
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
8.5
The Rookie
Director • 1 eps
2018 Series
6.9
Sorry For Your Loss
Director • 1 eps
2018 Series
5.6
Ten Days in the Valley
Director • 1 eps
2017 Series
7.6
13 Reasons Why
Director • 6 eps
2017 Series
6.5
Pure Genius
Director • 1 eps
2016 Series
8.2
This Is Us
Director • 3 eps
2016 Series
7.7
Billions
Director • 2 eps
2016 Series
6.7
American Crime
Director • 3 eps
2015 Series
8.1
American Horror Story
Director • 1 eps
2011 Series
8.0
Castle
Director • 2 eps
2009 Series
7.6
In Treatment
Director • 4 eps
2008 Series
8.2
Grey's Anatomy
Director • 6 eps
2005 Series
9.3
The Lyon's Den
Director • 1 eps
2003 Series