# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-sonnenfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:47:04.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-sonnenfeld"
name: "Barry Sonnenfeld"
slug: "barry-sonnenfeld"
description: "Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and television director. He originally worked as a cinematographer for the Coen brothers before directing comedy films like The Addams Family (1991), Get Shorty (1995), the Men in Black trilogy (1997–2012), Wild Wild West (1999), and RV (2006)."
tagline: "American film director and cinematographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Sonnenfeld_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1953-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.07068
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump