# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-claude-lauzon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:35.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-claude-lauzon"
name: "Jean-Claude Lauzon"
slug: "jean-claude-lauzon"
description: "Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. Born to a working class family in Montreal, Quebec, Lauzon dropped out of high school and worked various jobs before studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His two feature-length films, Night Zoo (1987) and Léolo (1992), established him as one of the most important Canadian directors of his generation. American film critic Roger Ebert wrote that \"Lauzon is so motivated by his resentments and desires that everything he creates is pressed into the cause and filled with passion.\""
tagline: "Canadian film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Jean-Claude_Lauzon.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-09-29"
deathDate: "1997-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.62
  momentum:             2.497328373698867
  historical:           8.379377333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491682/"
    handle:    "nm0491682"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان كلود لوزون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چين كلود لاوزون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Lauzon"
    title: "Jean-Claude Lauzon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%B1%CE%BD-%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%9B%CE%BF%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%BD"
    title: "Ζαν-Κλοντ Λοζόν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Lauzon"
    title: "Jean-Claude Lauzon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Lauzon"
    title: "Jean-Claude Lauzon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Lauzon_(r%C3%A9alisateur)"
    title: "Jean-Claude Lauzon (réalisateur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Lauzon"
    title: "Jean-Claude Lauzon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323659"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68315"
    title: "Jean-Claude Lauzon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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