# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johanna-vuoksenmaa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:13.304Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johanna-vuoksenmaa"
name: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa"
slug: "johanna-vuoksenmaa"
description: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa is a Finnish television and film director and screenwriter who has also worked as a photographer, installation artist and a teacher. Her films have been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and she has won many Finnish film and television awards for directing and screenwriting. As a director and screenwriter, Vuoksenmaa prefers the comedy genre because to her comedy means relief, forgiveness and defense. She does not use casting agencies but prefers to cast actors to her films herself, since she thinks that it creates a level of trust between the actor and the director."
tagline: "Finnish director and screenwriter (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johanna_Vuoksenmaa_MCU.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.37
  momentum:             0.5555555555555556
  historical:           6.202052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0904439/"
    handle:    "nm0904439"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2269216"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "چوهانا ڤوكسينما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Vuoksenmaa"
    title: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Vuoksenmaa"
    title: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Vuoksenmaa"
    title: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Vuoksenmaa"
    title: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/43513de7-d5fa-4b3f-868c-3e1f83ac3be4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3440926"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88862"
    title: "Johanna Vuoksenmaa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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