# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mat-whitecross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:58.437Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mat-whitecross"
name: "Mat Whitecross"
slug: "mat-whitecross"
description: "Mat Whitecross is an English film director, editor, and screenwriter. He began his career working for Michael Winterbottom, a director, and producer Andrew Eaton at Revolution Films. Whitecross is known for directing The Road to Guantánamo;an Ian Dury biopic, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll; as well as music documentaries Oasis: Supersonic and Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams. Whitecross has directed music videos for Coldplay, Take That and the Rolling Stones, being a long-time collaborator of Coldplay's."
tagline: "British film editor and film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kuo7QsaWWrO4CfV5BOPKUsFoKgs.jpg"
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: "1977-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.63
  momentum:             0.9419323554370227
  historical:           6.352485333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1475971/"
    handle:    "nm1475971"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Whitecross"
    title: "Mat Whitecross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "مات وايتيكروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Whitecross"
    title: "Mat Whitecross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "مت وایت‌کراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Whitecross"
    title: "Mat Whitecross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Whitecross"
    title: "Mat Whitecross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3298143"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182"
    title: "Mat Whitecross"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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