# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-shafer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:46:41.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-shafer"
name: "Dirk Shafer"
slug: "dirk-shafer"
description: "Dirk Alan Shafer was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazine's 1992 \"Man of the Year\". Shafer related that he did Playgirl for \"validation\" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive. Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties."
tagline: "American actor, model and director (1962-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Dirk_Shafer.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-11-07"
deathDate: "2015-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.44
  momentum:             2.896551724137931
  historical:           9.889958666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787257/"
    handle:    "nm0787257"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ڈرک شیفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ديرك شافير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "دیرک شافەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "درک شیفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Shafer"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q225456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45382"
    title: "Dirk Shafer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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