# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-wayne-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:09:17.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-wayne-peterson"
name: "Brian Wayne Peterson"
slug: "brian-wayne-peterson"
description: "Brian Wayne Peterson is an American screenwriter, television producer, and showrunner. After finding success writing the script for 1999 film But I'm a Cheerleader, he and his writing partner Kelly Souders wrote and produced the television series Smallville, Beauty and the Beast, Salem, Genius, and The Hot Zone."
tagline: "American television producer and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_ComicCon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.51
  momentum:             2.360475754803294
  historical:           6.181969333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677048/"
    handle:    "nm0677048"
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Brian Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برايان واين بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برايان واين بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Brian Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wayne_Peterson"
    title: "Brian Wayne Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Peterson"
    title: "Brian Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4965591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237421"
    title: "Brian Peterson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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