# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-begaudeau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:36.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-begaudeau"
name: "François Bégaudeau"
slug: "francois-begaudeau"
description: "François Bégaudeau is a French novelist and essayist. He is best known for co-writing and starring in The Class (2008), a film based on his 2006 semi-autobiographical novel Entre les murs. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009."
tagline: "French writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_B%C3%A9gaudeau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           16.45702
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Begaudeau"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2163571/"
    handle:    "nm2163571"
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    url:       "https://francoisbegaudeau.fr/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump