# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-penn
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:25.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-penn"
name: "Matthew Penn"
slug: "matthew-penn"
description: "Matthew Penn is an American director and television and film producer. His father was Arthur Penn, a film and theatre director. His mother was actress Peggy Maurer. He grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and New York City."
tagline: "American director and producer"
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: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.81
  momentum:             3.301929298450357
  historical:           2.285716
  currentAttention:     5.995203836930455
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671992/"
    handle:    "nm0671992"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Penn"
    title: "Matthew Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6791068"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123895"
    title: "Matthew Penn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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