# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jason-russell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:53:15.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jason-russell"
name: "Jason Russell"
slug: "jason-russell"
description: "Jason Russell is an American film and theater director, choreographer, and activist who co-founded Invisible Children, Inc. He is the director of Kony 2012, a short documentary film that went viral in the beginning of March 2012. In the first two weeks following its release, the documentary gained more than 83 million views on YouTube and became the subject of media scrutiny and criticism. Its subject is the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, his alleged war crimes, and the movement to bring him to the International Criminal Court."
tagline: "American film director known for founding Invisible Children, Inc. and Kony 2012"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/InvisibleChildren_founder%26celeb.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: "1978-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.79
  momentum:             1.324617661568821
  historical:           8.263885333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/JasonRussell"
    handle:    "JasonRussell"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2710743/"
    handle:    "nm2710743"
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    title: "Jason Russell"
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    title: "جايسون راسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "জেসন রাসেল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%95%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86_%DA%95%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جەیسن ڕوسیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Russell"
    title: "Jason Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Russell"
    title: "Jason Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Russell"
    title: "Jason Russell"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "جیسن رسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Jason Russell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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