# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-biname
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:59.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-biname"
name: "Charles Binamé"
slug: "charles-biname"
description: "Charles Binamé is a Quebec director. He was born in Belgium and came to Montreal with his family at a young age. He joined the National Film Board of Canada as an assistant director in 1971, but soon left for the private sector. During the 1970s, he mostly directed documentaries for Quebec television, and in the 1980s he directed over 200 television commercials, including some in England. When he returned to Canada in the early 1990s, he directed two of Quebec's most popular television series of all time, Blanche and Marguerite Volant. The former won him seven Prix Gémeaux and the FIPA d'Or at Cannes Film Festival for best drama series. Also in the 1990s Binamé wrote and directed a trio of edgy urban dramas – Eldorado, Streetheart  and Pandora's Beauty . His big-budget Séraphin: Heart of Stone was a huge box-office hit in Quebec in 2002, and in 2005 he directed The Rocket, a biography of hockey legend Maurice Richard, which earned him a Genie Award for best director."
tagline: "Canadian director (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Binam%C3%A9.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.015084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082748/"
    handle:    "nm0082748"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Binam%C3%A9"
    title: "Charles Binamé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "تشارلز بينام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Binam%C3%A9"
    title: "Charles Binamé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Binam%C3%A9"
    title: "Charles Binamé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87"
    title: "شارل بینامه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Binam%C3%A9"
    title: "Charles Binamé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Binam%C3%A9"
    title: "Charles Binamé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127599"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93136"
    title: "Charles Binamé"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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