# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-root
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:32:11.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-root"
name: "Joan Root"
slug: "joan-root"
description: "Joan Root was a Kenyan conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker.\n With her film-maker husband, Alan Root she made a series of acclaimed wildlife films. The couple divorced in 1981 and Alan Root settled in Nairobi afterward."
tagline: "Kenyan conservationist (1936–2006)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-03-25"
deathDate: "2006-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.82
  momentum:             6.536144578313254
  historical:           7.686430666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1036828/"
    handle:    "nm1036828"
sources:
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஜோன் ரூட்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "جوان روت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "جوان روت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Root"
    title: "Joan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Root"
    title: "Joan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Root"
    title: "Joan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Root"
    title: "Joan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Root"
    title: "Joan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Root"
    title: "Joan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1690776"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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