# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janis-streics
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:30.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janis-streics"
name: "Jānis Streičs"
slug: "janis-streics"
description: "Jānis Streičs was a Latvian film director and artist. His 1991 comedy film The Child of Man was runner-up for the Chicago International Children's Film Festival Rights of the Child Award in 1994. It had previously been Latvia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but did not make the shortlist."
tagline: "Soviet and Latvian film director (1936—2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-09-26"
deathDate: "2026-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.3
  momentum:             5.780153508771929
  historical:           11.025848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834168/"
    handle:    "nm0834168"
sources:
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    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "چانيس ستريكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "جانیس استرایکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%87%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Стрейч, Янис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Strei%C4%8Ds"
    title: "Jānis Streičs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2041368"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1189543"
    title: "Janis Streics"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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