# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-helgeland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:37:22.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-helgeland"
name: "Brian Helgeland"
slug: "brian-helgeland"
description: "Brian Thomas Helgeland is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director. He is best known for writing the screenplays for the films L.A. Confidential (1997) and Mystic River (2003). He wrote and directed the films 42, a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and Legend, about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters, the Kray twins. His work on L.A. Confidential earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay."
tagline: "American screenwriter (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Helgeland_(P040213CK-0212)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump