# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-brenner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:27:06.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-brenner"
name: "Marie Brenner"
slug: "marie-brenner"
description: "Marie Harriet Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist, and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her 1996 Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, \"The Man Who Knew Too Much\", inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. Her February 1997 Vanity Fair article \"American Tragedy: The Ballad of Richard Jewell\" partially inspired the 2019 film Richard Jewell directed by Clint Eastwood."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marie_brenner_bio.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1949-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.03
  momentum:             3.791763791763792
  historical:           9.0639
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107493/"
    handle:    "nm0107493"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mariebrenner.com"
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    title: "Marie Brenner"
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    title: "Marie Brenner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump