# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-michael-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:48:04.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-michael-cooper"
name: "Barry Michael Cooper"
slug: "barry-michael-cooper"
description: "Barry Michael Cooper was an American writer, producer, and director, best known for his screenplays for the films New Jack City (1991), Sugar Hill (1994), and Above the Rim (1994), sometimes called his \"Harlem Trilogy\"."
tagline: "American writer, producer and director (1957/8–2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Cropped_Photo_of_Barry_Michael_Cooper.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957"
deathDate: "2025-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.08
  momentum:             11.773625411647
  historical:           6.178765333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177875/"
    handle:    "nm0177875"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Michael_Cooper"
    title: "Barry Michael Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Michael_Cooper"
    title: "Barry Michael Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Michael_Cooper"
    title: "Barry Michael Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Michael_Cooper"
    title: "Barry Michael Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC"
    title: "バリー・マイケル・クーパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Michael_Cooper"
    title: "Barry Michael Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3635235"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1392252"
    title: "Barry Michael Cooper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump