# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iain-softley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:18:59.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iain-softley"
name: "Iain Softley"
slug: "iain-softley"
description: "Iain Declan Softley is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films include Backbeat, Hackers, The Wings of the Dove, K-PAX, The Skeleton Key, Inkheart and the BBC adaptation of Sadie Jones's novel The Outcast."
tagline: "British film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iain_Softley.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.16
  momentum:             0.9279336734693878
  historical:           12.79003866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812200/"
    handle:    "nm0812200"
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    title: "Софтли, Иэн"
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    title: "اياين سوفتلى"
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    title: "Iain Softley"
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    title: "ایان سافتلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iain Softley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iain Softley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iain Softley"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Softley"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump