# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betty-mahmoody
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:54:32.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betty-mahmoody"
name: "Betty Mahmoody"
slug: "betty-mahmoody"
description: "Betty Mahmoody is an American author and public speaker. In 1984, during a visit to Iran with her husband and daughter, he refused to let them return to the United States, holding them captive in Iran and subjecting them to constant abuse until she escaped with her daughter to Turkey in 1986. After she and her daughter returned to the US and after her divorce to Moody, she garnered media attention in 1987 when she published Not Without My Daughter, a memoir recounting her captivity in Iran. MGM-Pathé Communications adapted her memoir into a film in 1991."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.36
  momentum:             2.668987525384392
  historical:           16.51042266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537031/"
    handle:    "nm0537031"
sources:
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    title: "بیٹی محمود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتى ماهمودى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бети Махмуди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بتی محمودی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%98%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бети Махмуди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Mahmoody"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58081"
    title: "Betty Mahmoody"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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