# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-sweeney
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:11:45.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-sweeney"
name: "Mary Sweeney"
slug: "mary-sweeney"
description: "Mary Sweeney is an American director, writer, film editor and film producer. She was briefly married to American film director David Lynch, with whom she collaborated for 20 years. Sweeney worked with Lynch on several films and television series, most notably the original Twin Peaks series (1990), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001). Sweeney is the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professor in the Writing Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She was formerly the chair of the Film Independent board of directors."
tagline: "American film editor, film producer, screenwriter and film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iW3m51sl7zyaLllcwVP6cFCiEZC.jpg"
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: "1953-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.41
  momentum:             0.05626953803403959
  historical:           13.38780266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842156/"
    handle:    "nm0842156"
sources:
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    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماري سويني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارى سوينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "ماری سویینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sweeney"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Суини, Мэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508871"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5604"
    title: "Mary Sweeney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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