# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlie-kaufman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:34:21.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlie-kaufman"
name: "Charlie Kaufman"
slug: "charlie-kaufman"
description: "Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American filmmaker and novelist. His work is distinguished by postmodernist and surrealist storytelling, with many critics considering him an auteur. Getting his start as a television writer, Kaufman gained prominence for his collaborations with directors Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry on Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), before going on to direct films himself with Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, he released a novel, Antkind."
tagline: "American filmmaker and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charlie_Kaufman_Fantastic_Fest_2015-0257_(27441349145)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump