# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jason-berry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:48.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jason-berry"
name: "Jason Berry"
slug: "jason-berry"
description: "Jason Berry is an American investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for his groundbreaking reporting on the child sexual abuse crisis in the priesthood of the Catholic Church, and as a cultural critic and New Orleans historian."
tagline: "American writer and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jason_Berry_1061146.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: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.52
  momentum:             5.273922949461475
  historical:           5.278726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3246304/"
    handle:    "nm3246304"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jasonberryauthor.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Berry"
    title: "Jason Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "جايسون بيري (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "جايسون بيرى (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Berry"
    title: "Jason Berry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jason_Berry"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6162038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3373320"
    title: "Jason Berry"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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