# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marc-laidlaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:59:48.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marc-laidlaw"
name: "Marc Laidlaw"
slug: "marc-laidlaw"
description: "Marc Laidlaw is an American writer. Until 2016, he was a writer for the video game company Valve, where he worked on the Half-Life and Portal series."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marc_Laidlaw_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.043126684636118
  historical:           14.99651866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 11200
platforms:
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    handle:    "marc_laidlaw"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "marc_laidlaw"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1418743"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
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    handle:    "marclaidlaw"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Laidlaw"
    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Laidlaw"
    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Laidlaw"
    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marc Laidlaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump