Jennifer Yuh Nelson (born 1972) is a Korean American director, storyboard artist, and comedienne. She is best known for directing Kung Fu Panda 2 (first directing). Yuh is the first woman to solely direct an animated feature from a major Hollywood studio. She won an Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production for directing the opening for Kung Fu Panda.

Yuh was born and raised in South Korea in 1972 and immigrated to the United States with her parents and 2 sisters when she was 4. Yuh spent her childhood in Lakewood, California, where she enjoyed watching martial arts movies, playing with cars, and drawing. "I have been drawing since age 3 and making movies in my head for almost as long. In fact, drawing for me was a way to express those films when I had no other means of doing so," said Yuh.

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. Yuh traces the lineage of her career to those formative family experiences.

Yuh received a BFA in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach.[2] Prior to joining DreamWorks, Nelson worked at HBO Animation, developing various projects and short series. She has worked as director, story artist and character designer for HBO’s animated series “Spawn”.

DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg approached Yuh about directing Kung Fu Panda 2, the 2011 sequel to the 2008 Kung Fu Panda movie. She hadn't expressed interest in directing the animated movie, but the movie's producers felt that she was the right choice in continuing Master Po's story. The film proved a major critical and international box office success with a worldwide gross of $637.6 million as of Aug 30, 2011, making it the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman.