# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-romanek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:16:33.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-romanek"
name: "Mark Romanek"
slug: "mark-romanek"
description: "Mark Lee Romanek is an American film, music video and commercial director and photographer. He is best known for directing the films One Hour Photo (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2010). Romanek's music videos have come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. They have earned him three Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video and 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for Jay-Z's \"99 Problems\" and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award."
tagline: "American director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Romanek_Tokyo_Intl_Filmfest_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.16
  momentum:             0.6658103189895097
  historical:           17.158704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/markromanek/"
    handle:    "markromanek"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738796/"
    handle:    "nm0738796"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.markromanek.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مارك رومانيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "مارک رومنک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "마크 로마넥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Романек, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марк Романек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارک رومانیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538145"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57446"
    title: "Mark Romanek"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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