# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dean-wareham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:48:30.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dean-wareham"
name: "Dean Wareham"
slug: "dean-wareham"
description: "Dean Wareham is an American musician and actor who co-founded the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. He departed from Galaxie 500 in April 1991 and went on to establish the band Luna. Following Luna's dissolution in 2005, Wareham has collaborated on albums with fellow Luna band member Britta Phillips, forming the duo known as Dean & Britta. They have also ventured into film composition, notably contributing to the soundtracks of Noah Baumbach's films The Squid and the Whale (2005) and Mistress America. In 2014, Wareham released a self-titled album and in 2015, he reformed Luna."
tagline: "New Zealand-American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DeanWareham_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.89324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/WarehamDean"
    handle:    "WarehamDean"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/DeanWareham"
    handle:    "DeanWareham"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0999134/"
    handle:    "nm0999134"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "ديان واريهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8E%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "دین وارێھام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wareham"
    title: "Dean Wareham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wareham"
    title: "Dean Wareham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wareham"
    title: "Dean Wareham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wareham"
    title: "Dean Wareham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wareham"
    title: "Dean Wareham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dean_Wareham"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a21a3ff2-064c-452d-8aea-3d4039ab70d6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66260"
    title: "Dean Wareham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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