# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:06.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-johnson"
name: "Catherine Johnson"
slug: "catherine-johnson"
description: "Catherine Johnson is a British playwright, producing works for stage and television. She is best known for her book for the ABBA-inspired musical Mamma Mia! and screenplay for the musical's film adaptation. The film became the highest-grossing British picture of all time in the UK, and the biggest selling UK DVD of all time in January 2009. She also co-wrote the 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again."
tagline: "British playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catherine_Johnson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.284636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424735/"
    handle:    "nm0424735"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاثرين جونسون (مؤلفه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Johnson"
    title: "Catherine Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Johnson"
    title: "Catherine Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Johnson"
    title: "Catherine Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Johnson_(playwright)"
    title: "Catherine Johnson (playwright)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3)"
    title: "کاترین جانسون (نمایشنامه‌نویس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Johnson"
    title: "Catherine Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Johnson"
    title: "Catherine Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71069"
    title: "Catherine Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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