# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-tewkesbury
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:13:30.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-tewkesbury"
name: "Joan Tewkesbury"
slug: "joan-tewkesbury"
description: "Joan Tewkesbury is an American film and television director, writer, producer, choreographer and actress. She had a long association with the celebrated director Robert Altman, writing the screenplays for Thieves Like Us (1974), and Nashville (1975), widely regarded as \"Altman's masterpiece\", and which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay."
tagline: "American film and television director, screenwriter, producer and actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pCDoP11c68qZ0fId7ZvMQrtjcHN.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.45
  momentum:             3.927272727272727
  historical:           5.984813333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570219/"
    handle:    "nm0570219"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "جان ٹیوکسبری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "چوان تيوكيسبورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Tewkesbury"
    title: "Joan Tewkesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Tewkesbury"
    title: "Joan Tewkesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%95%88_%ED%85%8C%ED%80%98%EC%8A%A4%EB%B2%84%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "조안 테퀘스버리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Tewkesbury"
    title: "Joan Tewkesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6205491"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30588"
    title: "Joan Tewkesbury"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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