Directed credits
43
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Jessica Yu
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.0
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Directed movies: 14Directed series: 29All crew credits: 44
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 - 2026
Years active: 74
Average TMDB rating: 7.25
Wikidata: Q6187572
Also known as
Jessica Lingman Yu • Jessica Lingmin Yu • ג׳סיקה יו
Frequent jobs
Director (43)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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Jessica Yu.
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Director
2025 Movie
Quiz Lady
Director
2023 Movie
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
Director
2017 Movie
Foreveryone.net
Director
2016 Movie
Misconception
Director
2014 Movie
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Director
2012 Movie
Meet Mr Toilet
Director
2012 Movie
Last Call at the Oasis
Director
2011 Movie
Ping Pong Playa
Director
2008 Movie
Protagonist
Director
2007 Movie
In the Realms of the Unreal
Director
2004 Movie
The Living Museum
Director
1998 Movie
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Director
1996 Movie
Better Late
Director
1996 Movie
Directed Series
Series directed by Jessica Yu.
56 Days
Director • 2 eps
2026 Series
Long Bright River
Director • 1 eps
2025 Series
Citadel
Director • 2 eps
2023 Series
The Recruit
Director • 1 eps
2022 Series
Only Murders in the Building
Director • 4 eps
2021 Series
Walker
Director • 1 eps
2021 Series
Ratched
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
Hollywood
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
The Morning Show
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
Stumptown
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
Fosse/Verdon
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
The Rookie
Director • 1 eps
2018 Series
Sorry for Your Loss
Director • 1 eps
2018 Series
Ten Days in the Valley
Director • 1 eps
2017 Series
13 Reasons Why
Director • 6 eps
2017 Series
Pure Genius
Director • 1 eps
2016 Series
This Is Us
Director • 3 eps
2016 Series
Billions
Director • 2 eps
2016 Series
American Crime
Director • 3 eps
2015 Series
The Affair
Director • 1 eps
2014 Series
American Horror Story
Director • 1 eps
2011 Series
Castle
Director • 2 eps
2009 Series
In Treatment
Director • 4 eps
2008 Series
Grey's Anatomy
Director • 6 eps
2005 Series
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Jessica Yu.
Quiz Lady
Director
2023 Movie
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Director
2025 Movie
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Jessica Yu.
The Rookie
Director • 1 eps
2018 Series
Only Murders in the Building
Director • 4 eps
2021 Series
The West Wing
Director • 3 eps
1999 Series
Grey's Anatomy
Director • 6 eps
2005 Series
This Is Us
Director • 3 eps
2016 Series
American Horror Story
Director • 1 eps
2011 Series
Castle
Director • 2 eps
2009 Series
Billions
Director • 2 eps
2016 Series
ER
Director • 1 eps
1994 Series
The Morning Show
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
In Treatment
Director • 4 eps
2008 Series
Ratched
Director • 1 eps
2020 Series
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Jessica Yu.
Quiz Lady
Director
2023 Movie
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Director
2025 Movie
In the Realms of the Unreal
Director
2004 Movie
Capturing Reality
as Self
2008 Movie
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Jessica Yu.
Grey's Anatomy
Director • 6 eps
2005 Series
The Rookie
Director • 1 eps
2018 Series
American Horror Story
Director • 1 eps
2011 Series
Castle
Director • 2 eps
2009 Series
The West Wing
Director • 3 eps
1999 Series
ER
Director • 1 eps
1994 Series
This Is Us
Director • 3 eps
2016 Series
Billions
Director • 2 eps
2016 Series
Only Murders in the Building
Director • 4 eps
2021 Series
In Treatment
Director • 4 eps
2008 Series
13 Reasons Why
Director • 6 eps
2017 Series
The Morning Show
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Jessica Yu.
Bluff City Law
Executive Producer • 1 eps
2019 Series
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Jessica Yu.
Capturing Reality
as Self
2008 Movie
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Jessica Yu.
The Jon Stewart Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1993 Series
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series