# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kirsten-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:30:58.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kirsten-johnson"
name: "Kirsten Johnson"
slug: "kirsten-johnson"
description: "Kirsten Johnson is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as Citizenfour and The Oath. In 2016, she released Cameraperson, a film which consists of various pieces of footage from her decades of work all over the world as a documentary cinematographer. Directed by Johnson herself, Cameraperson went on to be praised for its handling of themes about documentary ethics interwoven with Johnson's personal reflection on her experiences."
tagline: "American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kirsten_Johnson_at_MIFF.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1965-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.38
  momentum:             3.469387755102042
  historical:           7.924158666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0990310/"
    handle:    "nm0990310"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "کرسٹن جانسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A9)"
    title: "كريستين جونسون (مخرجة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كيرستن جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Johnson"
    title: "Kirsten Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Johnson"
    title: "Kirsten Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Johnson"
    title: "Kirsten Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Johnson"
    title: "Kirsten Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Johnson"
    title: "Kirsten Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6416089"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117841"
    title: "Kirsten Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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