# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-sheridan-q55429
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:29:34.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-sheridan-q55429"
name: "Jim Sheridan"
slug: "jim-sheridan-q55429"
description: "Jim Sheridan is an Irish filmmaker. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed three critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot (1989), The Field (1990), and In the Name of the Father (1993), and later directed the films The Boxer (1997), In America (2003), and Brothers (2009). Sheridan has received six Academy Award nominations for his work."
tagline: "Irish playwright and filmmaker"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump