# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cherien-dabis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:04.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cherien-dabis"
name: "Cherien Dabis"
slug: "cherien-dabis"
description: "Cherien Dabis is a Palestinian-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She was named one of Variety magazine's 10 Directors to Watch in 2009, and in 2010 received a United States Artists (USA) Fellowship. In 2022, she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series award for her work on the television series Only Murders in the Building. In March 2022, Dabis was named Laureate for Cultural Excellence by the Takreem foundation for her work on authentic Arab representation in Hollywood."
tagline: "Palestinian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cherien_Dabis_at_the_Red_Sea_International_Film_Festival_2025_2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1976-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.464913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1435062/"
    handle:    "nm1435062"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "چیرین ڈابیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "شيرين دعيبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "شيرين دعيبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherien_Dabis"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherien_Dabis"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherien_Dabis"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherien_Dabis"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherien_Dabis"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherien_Dabis"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5091954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/103008"
    title: "Cherien Dabis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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