# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:39:44.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-ray"
name: "Billy Ray"
slug: "billy-ray"
description: "Billy Ray is an American screenwriter and film director. He began writing for television and movies in 1994 with Color of Night. He has written numerous successful films, including the first Hunger Games movie (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), and Richard Jewell (2019), earning an Oscar nomination for the second film."
tagline: "American screenwriter, television writer and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BillyRayByPhilKonstantin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.36
  momentum:             0.004106214070626882
  historical:           17.463124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0712753"
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    title: "Billy Ray"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump