# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-mccarthy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:38:01.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-mccarthy"
name: "Helen McCarthy"
slug: "helen-mccarthy"
description: "Helen McCarthy is a British author known for writing reference works on anime and manga, including 500 Manga Heroes and Villains, Anime!, The Anime Movie Guide, and Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation. She is the co-author of The Erotic Anime Movie Guide and The Anime Encyclopedia with Jonathan Clements. McCarthy is also a designer of needlework and textile art."
tagline: "British journalist, anime writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_McCarthy%2C_Anime_North_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.67
  momentum:             4.750207189474775
  historical:           7.230456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1262207"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.helenmccarthy.org/Home"
sources:
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    title: "Маккарти, Хелен (писательница)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيلين مكارثى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helen McCarthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_McCarthy"
    title: "Helen McCarthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C"
    title: "هلن مک‌کارتی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helen McCarthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_McCarthy"
    title: "Helen McCarthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2896992"
    title: "Helen McCarthy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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