# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jared-hess
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:41:22.545Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jared-hess"
name: "Jared Hess"
slug: "jared-hess"
description: "Jared Lawrence Hess and Jerusha Elizabeth Hess are husband-and-wife American filmmakers known for their work on Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre (2006) and Gentlemen Broncos (2009), all of which they co-wrote and which were directed by Jared. Jared also directed A Minecraft Movie (2025). For their film Ninety-Five Senses, they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jared_Hess_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.231444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381478/"
    handle:    "nm0381478"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jared_Hess"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Hess"
    title: "Jared Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Hess"
    title: "Jared Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Hess"
    title: "Jared Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Hess"
    title: "Jared Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Hess"
    title: "Jared Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジャレッド・ヘス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2480656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53925"
    title: "Jared Hess"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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