# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ira-sachs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:21:48.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ira-sachs"
name: "Ira Sachs"
slug: "ira-sachs"
description: "Ira Sachs is an American filmmaker. Sachs started his career directing short films such as Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993) before making his feature film debut with The Delta (1996). Sachs later won acclaim for his dramatic independent films Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Keep the Lights On (2012), Love Is Strange (2014), Little Men (2016), and Passages (2023)."
tagline: "American filmmaker (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MKr24691_Ira_Sachs_(Passages%2C_Berlinale_2023).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.14
  momentum:             4.998718277364778
  historical:           18.10921066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/irasachs"
    handle:    "irasachs"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755158/"
    handle:    "nm0755158"
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    title: "Ira Sachs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ira Sachs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "아이라 잭스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сакс, Айра"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Ira Sachs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump