# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-eszterhas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:31:47.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-eszterhas"
name: "Joe Eszterhas"
slug: "joe-eszterhas"
description: "József Antal Eszterhás, credited as Joe Eszterhas, is a Hungarian-American writer. Born in Hungary, he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. After an early career as a journalist and editor, he entered the film industry. His first screenwriting credit was for the film F.I.S.T. (1978). He co-wrote the script for Flashdance, which became one of the highest-grossing films of 1983, and set off a lucrative and prolific run for his career. By the early 1990s, he was known as the highest-paid writer in Hollywood, and noted for his work in the erotic thriller genre. He was paid a then-record $3 million for his script Love Hurts, which was produced as Basic Instinct (1992), and following its success, news outlets reported he earned seven-figure payouts solely on the basis of two-to-four page outlines."
tagline: "Hungarian-American screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sH8F7aA92o3TJw7F9UOrk6dW65d.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.71
  momentum:             40
  historical:           16.04843866666667
  currentAttention:     9.16
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000390/"
    handle:    "nm0000390"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جوي ايستيرهاس"
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    title: "جو استرهاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Eszterhas"
    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جو استرهاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Eszterhas"
    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Eszterhas"
    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Eszterhas"
    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эстерхаз, Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Joe Eszterhas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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