# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-gilroy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:28:17.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-gilroy"
name: "Dan Gilroy"
slug: "dan-gilroy"
description: "Daniel Christopher Gilroy is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. His other screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year. He wrote six episodes over two seasons of the drama series Andor (2022–2025), and for his work on the second season he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Gilroy_-_Andor_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.16655866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319659/"
    handle:    "nm0319659"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump