# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-peretz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:37.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-peretz"
name: "Jesse Peretz"
slug: "jesse-peretz"
description: "Jesse Peretz is an American film and television director, TV producer and former musician. He first rose to prominence as a bass guitarist and founding member of The Lemonheads, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based band that formed in 1986. Peretz left the band as a musician shortly before its breakout album, It's a Shame About Ray, was released, but stayed on as the band photographer. After leaving The Lemonheads, he began to work extensively as a director, first in short-form works such as television commercials and music videos, later transitioning to feature films and television series. His directorial work includes the films Our Idiot Brother and Juliet, Naked, and the TV series Girls."
tagline: "American musician and director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yIFlD4f01dMU4qDqihPXvMaL3Sr.jpg"
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: "1968-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.352166666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673400/"
    handle:    "nm0673400"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/265532"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "چيس پيريتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Peretz"
    title: "Jesse Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "جسی پرتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Peretz"
    title: "Jesse Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Peretz"
    title: "Jesse Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B2"
    title: "جیسی پیریٹز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6b031eca-47ce-4b7e-8b26-2ed7a0856bae"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130816"
    title: "Jesse Peretz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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