# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-agnes-donoghue
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:36:47.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-agnes-donoghue"
name: "Mary Agnes Donoghue"
slug: "mary-agnes-donoghue"
description: "Mary Agnes Donoghue is an American screenwriter and director. Following early jobs as a secretary and short story writer, Donoghue's first writing credit was the 1984 film The Buddy System. She went on to pen the screenplays for Beaches (1988) and Paradise (1991), which was also her directorial debut. Donoghue co-wrote and co-produced Deceived (1991) and two years later, her first play, Me and Mamie O'Rourke, made its debut at the Strand Theatre in London. In the 2000s, Donoghue wrote the screenplay for White Oleander (2002) and co-wrote Veronica Guerin (2003) with Carol Doyle. In 2013, Donoghue wrote and directed Jenny's Wedding."
tagline: "American screenwriter and director"
gender: "female"
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: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.14
  momentum:             11.44736842105263
  historical:           6.147949333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232858/"
    handle:    "nm0232858"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%D9%86%D8%B3_%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88"
    title: "میری ایگنس ڈونگو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "مارى اجنيس دونوجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Donoghue"
    title: "Mary Agnes Donoghue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Donoghue"
    title: "Mary Agnes Donoghue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Donoghue"
    title: "Mary Agnes Donoghue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Donoghue"
    title: "Mary Agnes Donoghue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16197599"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66086"
    title: "Mary Agnes Donoghue"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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