# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-mamet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:47:40.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-mamet"
name: "David Mamet"
slug: "david-mamet"
description: "David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of 1970s off-Broadway plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017."
tagline: "American playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Mamet_2_by_David_Shankbone.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: "1947-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.74118
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  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