# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-petrie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:26:27.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-petrie"
name: "Doug Petrie"
slug: "doug-petrie"
description: "Douglas Petrie is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He co-wrote the screenplays for the Fantastic Four film and Harriet the Spy. He has also written for the television shows Angel, The 4400, Tru Calling and American Horror Story: Coven. He served as a co-executive producer and writer for two seasons on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and as a consulting producer and writer on the second season of Pushing Daisies. He made a cameo on Joss Whedon's web-based film, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, as \"Professor Normal\". He served as co-executive producer on the first season of the Netflix show Daredevil, and took over as showrunner for its second season alongside Marco Ramirez. In April 2016 Petrie and Ramirez were announced as showrunners of The Defenders, a miniseries that crosses over Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist."
tagline: "Producer; Writer; Director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marco_Ramirez%2C_Doug_Petrie_Daredevil_Signing_NYCC_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.12
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           6.355545333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677956/"
    handle:    "nm0677956"
sources:
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    title: "Doug Petrie"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Petrie"
    title: "Douglas Petrie"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Petrie"
    title: "Douglas Petrie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%94%EA%B7%B8_%ED%94%BC%ED%8A%B8%EB%A6%AC"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1608351"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump