# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-cockburn
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:36:28.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-cockburn"
name: "Leslie Cockburn"
slug: "leslie-cockburn"
description: "Leslie Cockburn is an American investigative journalist, and filmmaker. Her investigative television segments have aired on CBS, NBC, PBS Frontline, and 60 Minutes. She has won an Emmy Award, The Hillman Prize, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the George Polk Award."
tagline: "Writer and filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leslie_Cockburn_on_RealTVfilms.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.67
  momentum:             18.79849066596055
  historical:           5.441858666666667
  currentAttention:     81.81818181818181
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 49
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LeslieCockburn"
    handle:    "LeslieCockburn"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/leslieforcongress/"
    handle:    "leslieforcongress"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/LeslieforCongress"
    handle:    "LeslieforCongress"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168298/"
    handle:    "nm0168298"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Rgh3QBJR3j1g6Ro9IUbYQ"
    handle:    "@lesliecockburnforcongress467"
    followers: 49
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cockburn"
    title: "Leslie Cockburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليزلي كوكبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "ليزلى كوكبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cockburn"
    title: "Leslie Cockburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "لیسلی کاک برن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6530712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/227103"
    title: "Leslie Cockburn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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