# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-zaks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:38:45.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-zaks"
name: "Jerry Zaks"
slug: "jerry-zaks"
description: "Jerry Zaks is an American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves (1986), Lend Me a Tenor (1989), and Six Degrees of Separation (1991) and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Guys and Dolls (1992)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerryy_Zaks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             15.59322033898305
  historical:           9.036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952360/"
    handle:    "nm0952360"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b2ee4dfd-8bd3-446a-9cd7-f45ce58cf924"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "چيرى زاكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B2%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "جری زکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "جیری زیکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59635"
    title: "Jerry Zaks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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