# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-goodman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:53:02.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-goodman"
name: "Karen Goodman"
slug: "karen-goodman"
description: "Karen Goodman is an American film and television director and producer, best known for her work on various documentaries. She has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category four times for The Children's Storefront (1988), Chimps: So Like Us (1990), Rehearsing a Dream (2007), and Strangers No More (2010). Goodman won once for producing and directing Strangers No More at the 83rd Academy Awards. The win was shared with Kirk Simon, with whom she worked on Chimps: So Like Us and Rehearsing a Dream as well. She has further received four Primetime Emmy nominations, winning once for Masterclass in 2014."
tagline: "American film director and film producer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/igyFG1BY6K6Dn47PJztOTwENVSb.jpg"
gender: "female"
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: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.135781333333334
  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/nm0329139/"
    handle:    "nm0329139"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86_%DA%AF%DA%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "کیرن گڈمین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كارين غودمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Goodman"
    title: "Karen Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Goodman"
    title: "Karen Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Goodman"
    title: "Karen Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Goodman"
    title: "Karen Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1729241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/214324"
    title: "Karen Goodman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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