Jessie Nelson

Birth Name:

Jessie Nelson

Birth Place:

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Profession

Writer, Producer, Actress, Director, Composer, Script department

Was nominated for a Humanitas Prize in the feature film category for "I Am Sam" in 2002
Won a Producers Guild of America Stanley Kramer Award for "I Am Sam" in 2002
Won a Naguib Mahfouz Award for best first or second work for "I Am Sam" in 2002
Briefly studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz but left to join the New York theater company Mabou Mines
Best known as the writer, producer and director of "I Am Sam․"
Was the writer and director of the short film "To the Moon, Alice" that screened at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival
Is the co-author of the children's book "Labracadabra" with Karen Leigh Hopkins, released in 2011
Wrote and produced the films "The Story of Us," "Fred Claus" and "Because I Said So․"

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