# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahtob-mahmoody
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:01:29.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahtob-mahmoody"
name: "Mahtob Mahmoody"
slug: "mahtob-mahmoody"
description: "Mahtob Maryam Mahmoody is an American author who wrote the autobiographical memoir My Name is Mahtob, which depicts her perspective of her family's story when she and her mother, Betty Mahmoody, were held captive by her father, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, in his country of birth, Iran, for a period of 18 months during the mid-1980s. Her mother wrote her version of their story in her 1987 biography Not Without My Daughter, which was adapted into a 1991 feature film of the same name in which Mahtob was portrayed by Sheila Rosenthal and her parents were portrayed by Sally Field and Alfred Molina."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.49
  momentum:             6.298832227169623
  historical:           5.996836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8"
    title: "Махтоб Махмуди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahtob_Mahmoody"
    title: "Mahtob Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahtob_Mahmoody"
    title: "Mahtob Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "مهتاب محمودی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%81%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "مہتوب محمودی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24055506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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