# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-chai-vasarhelyi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:42:52.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-chai-vasarhelyi"
name: "Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi"
slug: "elizabeth-chai-vasarhelyi"
description: "Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her then-husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiled Alex Honnold and his free solo climb of El Capitan in June 2017. Vasarhelyi and Chin's first scripted film venture was Nyad, a biopic chronicling Diana Nyad's quest to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Chai_Vasarhelyi_2023_(cropped).jpg?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: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.62711866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/chaiv"
    handle:    "chaiv"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/chaivasarhelyi/"
    handle:    "chaivasarhelyi"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1888091/"
    handle:    "nm1888091"
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    title: "اليزابيث تشاى ڤاساريلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi"
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    title: "الزبتھ چائی وسارہیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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