# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ridley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:30.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ridley"
name: "John Ridley"
slug: "john-ridley"
description: "John Ridley IV is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the anthology series American Crime. In 2017 he directed the documentary film Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992."
tagline: "American writer and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ridley_12_Years_A_Slave.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.560092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725983/"
    handle:    "nm0725983"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jridley.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون ريدلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridley"
    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridley"
    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ridley"
    title: "John Ridley"
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    title: "Ридли, Джон"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51679"
    title: "John Ridley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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