# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erica-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:49:13.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erica-schmidt"
name: "Erica Schmidt"
slug: "erica-schmidt"
description: "Erica Schmidt is an American theatre director, playwright, and screenwriter best known for writing the BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated 2021 film Cyrano, based on her 2018 stage musical of the same name. The musical premiered at the Goodspeed. She was nominated for the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Sunset Film Circle Award for Best Screenplay."
tagline: "American theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, and actor (born 1975)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/abc0NPkPhH9bzXBGO4is2xdIcur.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1975-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.52
  momentum:             2.238326643237617
  historical:           4.327962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1765584/"
    handle:    "nm1765584"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Schmidt"
    title: "Erica Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Schmidt"
    title: "Erica Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50358909"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2830968"
    title: "Erica Schmidt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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