---
name: "Jessie Nelson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jessie-nelson"
fi1m_id: "jessie-nelson"
imdb_id: "nm0625458"
tmdb_id: 16853
wikidata_id: "Q3177700"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:41:21.917730+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."
---

# Jessie Nelson

## Identity

Jessie Nelson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jessie-nelson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jessie-nelson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0625458
- **TMDB ID:** 16853
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3177700
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Nelson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177700, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16853

Director. Born 1 January 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Also known as:**  Jessica Eva Nelson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Nelson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177700, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16853

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Curb Your Enthusiasm*](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md) (84)

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## Biography

Jessie Nelson is an American producer, director, writer and former actress. She began her career in theatre, performing with Mabou Mines at the Public Theater in New York and in Shakespeare in the Park.

Nelson wrote, directed and produced the feature films *Corrina, Corrina* (1994) and *I Am Sam* (2001). She co-wrote the screenplays for *Stepmom* (1998) and *The Story of Us* (1999), and produced *Fred Claus* (2007) and *Danny Collins* (2015). Her other directing credits include the series *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2017 episode) and the film *Love the Coopers* (2015). She co-created, wrote for and directed episodes of the series *Little Voice* (2020). Nelson wrote the book for the Broadway musical *Waitress* (music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles) and directed the stage work *Alice by Heart*.

She received the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America for *I Am Sam*. Nelson is married to director Bryan Gordon; their daughter is actress Molly Gordon.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com, tvinsider.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Oh, Hi!* (2025), as The Voice of Sandra James
- *Waitress: The Musical* (2023), Producer, Musical, Writer
- *American Assassin Amnesiac* (2023), Thanks
- *Little Voice* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Story, Original Music Composer, Writer, Creator
- *Alice by Heart* (2019), Director, Writer
- *Love the Coopers* (2015), Director, Producer
- *Danny Collins* (2015), Producer
- *Fred Claus* (2007), Producer, Story
- *Because I Said So* (2007), Producer, Screenplay
- *I Am Sam* (2001), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)
- *The Story of Us* (1999), as Realtor · Producer, Writer
- *Stepmom* (1998), Screenplay
- *ER* (1994), series, as Bite Victim's Mother — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *Corrina, Corrina* (1994), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Hoggs' Heaven* (1994), as Poet
- *So I Married an Axe Murderer* (1993), as Ralph
- *The Switch* (1993), as Elizabeth Garland
- *To The Moon, Alice* (1991), Director, Writer
- *Daniel and the Towers* (1987), Writer

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