11 Facts About Cathy Yan

Cathy Y Yan is a Chinese-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Cathy Yan's films include the comedy-drama film Dead Pigs and Birds of Prey, the eighth installment of the DC Extended Universe.

Yan was born in China and raised in Northern Virginia, near Washington, DC While her family was living in China, Yan's father was given a visa to study sociology in the US Two years later her mother left for America, and Yan remained in China with her grandparents.

Cathy Yan moved to Hong Kong when she was fourteen years old, where she attended high school.

Cathy Yan worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing before turning to filmmaking.

Cathy Yan removed 12 minutes from the film in its wider February 2021 release on the streaming platform Mubi.

Cathy Yan was the second woman and the first Asian woman to direct a DC film.

In February 2021, Cathy Yan started developing an adaptation of Rachel Khong's short story, The Freshening.

FilmNation Entertainment and Ali Wong were set to produce the feature, with Cathy Yan writing and directing.

In 2021, Cathy Yan directed an episode of the HBO drama series Succession called "The Disruption", in season three, episode three, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.

Since Cathy Yan's father was a big fan of the nineties era of Chinese cinema, Cathy Yan expanded into East Asian art-house cinema, which included Wong Kar-wai.