Jessie Nelson
American filmmaker
Jessie Nelson is an American film producer, director, actress and writer.
Career
Nelson began her career acting with the theater group Mabou Mines at the Public Theater in New York and she went on to perform in Shakespeare In The Park.
Nelson began her directing career with the award-winning short film To the Moon, Alice (1990), which she also wrote. The film starred Chris Cooper and was part of a television program for Showtime titled The Showtime 30-Minute Movie.
Her first feature film was Corrina, Corrina (1994) which she wrote, directed, and produced. It starred Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta. The film was suggested by her life. She went on to write, direct, and produce I Am Sam (2001) starring Sean Penn. Despite doing well at the box office, Nelson did not direct another film until Love the Coopers (2015). "The door did not open for me," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021.
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