Jessica Yu Biography

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Jessica Yu (born 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. A Yale University graduate, she has worked in both documentaries and dramatic films. She won an Academy Award for best short subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996).

She, her husband Mark Salzman, and their daughter Ava live in Los Angeles. A fifth-generation American, her father's family is from Shanghai and her mother's is from Guangdong. While she cannot understand or speak Chinese, her husband can speak excellent Mandarin.

Selected filmography (as director)

• 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)
  
• The Conductor (1994)
  
• Sour Death Balls (1993)
  

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