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Name
  
Jessica Yu

Books
  
THE LIVING MUSEUM

Spouse
  
Role
  
Film director


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Full Name
  
Jessica Lingmin Yu

Born
  
February 14, 1966 (age 58) (
1966-02-14
)

Occupation
  
Director, writer, producer

Parents
  
Connie Young Yu, Kou-ping Yu

Movies
  
In the Realms of the Unreal, Last Call at the Oasis, Ping Pong Playa, Protagonist, Meet Mr Toilet

Similar People
  
Jimmy Tsai, Henry Darger, Elise Pearlstein, Mark Salzman, Roger Fan

Profiles


Children
  
Ava Salzman, Esme Salzman

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Jessica Lingmin Yu (born 14 February 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1997). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012), is based upon Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been: Misconception (2014), and ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

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Early life

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Yu grew up in Los Altos Hills, California and graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto. There she wrote for the school newspaper, The Oracle. She then went to Yale University, majored in English and was an NCAA All-American in fencing. As a world-class foilist, she was a member of the Junior World Team, and the United States national team at the World Championships and World University Games. Jessica Yu graduated from Yale University summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in English, 1987.

Personal life

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She, her husband, acclaimed author, Mark Salzman, and their daughters Ava and Esme live in Los Angeles. Her father, Dr. Kou-ping Yu, an oncologist, was born in Shanghai. Her mother, Connie Young Yu, writer and historian, is a third-generation Californian. Jessica has an older sister, Jennifer Yu, a technical publications manager, and a younger brother, Martin Yu, an actor.

Selective filmography as director

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  • 13 Reasons Why (TV series)
  • ForEveryone.Net (2016)
  • Misconception (2014)
  • Last Call at the Oasis (2011)
  • Ping Pong Playa (2008)
  • Protagonist (2007)
  • Scandal (TV series)
  • Grey's Anatomy (TV series)
  • The West Wing (TV series)
  • In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
  • American Dreams (TV series)
  • The Guardian (TV series)
  • ER (TV series)
  • The Living Museum (1998)
  • Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
  • The Conductor (1994)
  • Sour Death Balls (1993)

  • Jessica Yu Finding Her Way

    References

    Jessica Yu Wikipedia