# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-cousins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:45:30.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-cousins"
name: "Mark Cousins"
slug: "mark-cousins"
description: "Mark Nathaniel Cousins is a Northern Irish director and writer. A prolific documentarian, among his best-known works is the 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey."
tagline: "British film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Cousins_(filmmaker)_by_Jenny_Leask.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.489352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184108/"
    handle:    "nm0184108"
sources:
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    title: "مارك كوسينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Cousins"
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    title: "Mark Cousins"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Mark Cousins (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins"
    title: "Mark Cousins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins"
    title: "Mark Cousins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins_(kritikus_film)"
    title: "Mark Cousins (kritikus film)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins"
    title: "Mark Cousins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins"
    title: "Mark Cousins"
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    title: "Mark Cousins (sinemacı)"
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    title: "Mark Cousins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump