---
name: "Alice Wu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alice-wu"
fi1m_id: "alice-wu"
imdb_id: "nm1226108"
tmdb_id: 84461
wikidata_id: "Q2836688"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "21 April 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:55:44.092323+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alice Wu

## Identity

Alice Wu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alice-wu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alice-wu
- **IMDb ID:** nm1226108
- **TMDB ID:** 84461
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2836688
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Wu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2836688, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1226108/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84461

Director. Born 21 April 1970 in San Jose, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 21 April 1970, San Jose, California, USA
- **Also known as:** 伍思薇
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Wu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2836688, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1226108/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84461

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fleishman Is in Trouble*](https://film.one/tv/fleishman-is-in-trouble.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alice Wu (Chinese: 伍思薇) is an American film director and screenwriter. She was born on 21 April 1970 in San Jose, California.

Wu studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. She worked as a software engineer at Microsoft before leaving to pursue filmmaking. Her debut feature *Saving Face* (2004), which she wrote and directed, was followed by *The Half of It* (2020), also written and directed by Wu. She has directed episodes of the series *Fleishman Is in Trouble* (2022) and *Interior Chinatown* (2024). She also contributed to the screenplay for the animated film *Over the Moon* (2020).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fleishman Is in Trouble* (2022), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/fleishman-is-in-trouble.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Interior Chinatown* (2024), series, Director
- *Fleishman Is in Trouble* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/fleishman-is-in-trouble.md)
- *The Note* (2022), Director, Writer
- *Over the Moon* (2020), as Additional Writing
- *The Half of It* (2020), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Saving Face* (2004), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Alice Wu](https://film.one/media/person/4131105/gallery-bc855be25a97.jpg) Alice Wu — Mai Le from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Alice_wu_%286882625%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alice Wu](https://film.one/media/person/4131105/gallery-b59da020f730.jpg) Alice Wu — Image via TMDB

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