Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Jennifer Yuh Nelson [1972-pres] is a Korean American director, best known for directing Kung Fu Panda 2. Nelson is the first woman to solely direct an animated feature from a major Hollywood studio.[1]
Biography and work
Yuh Nelson was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States with her parents and two sisters when she was four. Nelson spent her childhood in Lakewood, where she enjoyed watching martial arts movies, playing with cars and drawing. As a young girl, she would sit at the kitchen table for hours and watch her mother draw, copying her every stroke. As a kid, she would fancy stories with her sisters and was learning to draw to get down those stories. Nelson traces the lineage of her career to those formative family experiences.