# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:25:41.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-brooks"
name: "Albert Brooks"
slug: "albert-brooks"
description: "Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the comedy-drama Broadcast News (1987) and was widely praised for his performance in the action drama Drive (2011). Brooks has acted in films such as Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Out of Sight (1998), My First Mister (2001), and Concussion (2015). He has written, directed, and starred in a number of comedies, including Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991). He is the author of 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America (2011)."
tagline: "American actor and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albert_Brooks_at_'Drive'_premiere_TIFF_9.10.11.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1947-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump