# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-chandrasekhar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:08:53.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-chandrasekhar"
name: "Jay Chandrasekhar"
slug: "jay-chandrasekhar"
description: "Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar is an actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the Broken Lizard films Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest and Super Troopers 2. Since 2001, he has also worked frequently as a television director on many episodes of Community and The Goldbergs, among dozens of comedy series. He has also occasionally worked as a film director outside of Broken Lizard projects, most notably on the 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard."
tagline: "American film director of Tamil origin"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kPBrBwm6BzUZhYPzdYcRwMPkgPf.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.45
  momentum:             6.544766708701134
  historical:           13.57676133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0151540"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump