# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ava-duvernay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:03:45.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ava-duvernay"
name: "Ava DuVernay"
slug: "ava-duvernay"
description: "Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directoral debut, I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award."
tagline: "American film director"
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gender: "female"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1972-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 226
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump