# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheryl-benard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:17:53.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheryl-benard"
name: "Cheryl Benard"
slug: "cheryl-benard"
description: "Cheryl Benard is an American-Austrian writer, novelist and political-social scientist. She is the wife of Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander Benard and Maximilian Benard."
tagline: "American social scientist & novelist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.89
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.502018666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070194/"
    handle:    "nm0070194"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "شيريل بينارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "شيريل بينارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Benard"
    title: "Cheryl Benard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Benard"
    title: "Cheryl Benard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Benard"
    title: "Cheryl Benard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89891"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1434522"
    title: "Cheryl Benard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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