# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-weitz
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:34:20.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-weitz"
name: "Chris Weitz"
slug: "chris-weitz"
description: "Christopher John Weitz is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his other main works, Weitz was one of the lead actors in the Miguel Arteta-directed film Chuck & Buck, directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books, wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of Cinderella, and co-wrote Rogue One with Tony Gilroy and Antz with Todd Alcott and Paul."
tagline: "American film director (born 1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Weitz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1969-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.642152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "chrisweitz"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919363/"
    handle:    "nm0919363"
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    title: "Вайц, Крис"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump