# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-van-peebles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:42.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-van-peebles"
name: "Mario Van Peebles"
slug: "mario-van-peebles"
description: "Mario Cain Van Peebles is a Mexican-born American actor and director. He is the son of Melvin Van Peebles, whom he played in the 2003 biopic Baadasssss!, which he also co-wrote, produced, and directed. He also starred in Heartbreak Ridge (1986), New Jack City (1991), and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016), the latter two of which he had directed."
tagline: "American actor and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mario_Van_Peebles_by_John_Mathew_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1957-01-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.13
  momentum:             0.5158825652749368
  historical:           23.59185733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 241
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005522/"
    handle:    "nm0005522"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump