# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gareth-evans-q4207234
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:23.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gareth-evans-q4207234"
name: "Gareth Evans"
slug: "gareth-evans-q4207234"
description: "Gareth Huw Evans is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, editor, and action choreographer. He is best known for the Indonesian action crime films Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014), and for bringing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat into world cinema through these films. He is also known for co-creating, co-writing, co-directing, and executive producing the Sky Atlantic/AMC action crime drama television series Gangs of London (2020–present), alongside Matt Flannery, based on the 2006 video game of the same name."
tagline: "Welsh filmmaker (born 1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gareth_Evans2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.35
  momentum:             3.348355867134035
  historical:           20.53034266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ghuwevans"
    handle:    "ghuwevans"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ghuwevans/"
    handle:    "ghuwevans"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2153088/"
    handle:    "nm2153088"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gareth Evans (Regisseur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gareth Evans"
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    title: "Gareth Evans (réalisateur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Evans_(reyalizat%C3%A8)"
    title: "Gareth Evans (reyalizatè)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Evans_(sutradara)"
    title: "Gareth Evans (sutradara)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gareth Evans (regista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gareth Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gareth Evans (regisseur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Evans_(re%C5%BCyser)"
    title: "Gareth Evans (reżyser)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Evans"
    title: "Gareth Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эванс, Гарет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гарет Еванс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142013"
    title: "Gareth Evans"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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