# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desiree-akhavan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:09:25.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/desiree-akhavan"
name: "Desiree Akhavan"
slug: "desiree-akhavan"
description: "Desiree Akhavan (Persian: دزیره اخوان, born December 27, 1984) is an American filmmaker, writer, and actress. She is best known for her 2014 feature film debut Appropriate Behavior, and her 2018 film The Miseducation of Cameron Post."
tagline: "American filmmaker and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Desiree_Akhavan_2015-05-24.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1984-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.3
  momentum:             3.465416592959491
  historical:           14.274032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3034178/"
    handle:    "nm3034178"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Desiree Akhavan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Desiree Akhavan"
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    title: "دزیره اخوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Desiree Akhavan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "דזירה אח'וואן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Desiree Akhavan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Desiree Akhavan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڈیزری اخوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Desiree Akhavan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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