# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jennifer-yuh-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:47.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jennifer-yuh-nelson"
name: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
slug: "jennifer-yuh-nelson"
description: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson is an American story artist, character designer, illustrator, and film and television director. She is best known for directing the films Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, and The Darkest Minds. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct and the first Asian American to direct a major American animated film, and has been recognized as a commercially successful Asian American director."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.4
  momentum:             1.174934725848564
  historical:           13.64748933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950775/"
    handle:    "nm0950775"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چينيفير يوه نيلسون"
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    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson"
    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson"
    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson"
    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EB%8B%88%ED%8D%BC_%EC%97%AC_%EB%84%AC%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "제니퍼 여 넬슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson"
    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142312"
    title: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump