# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthijs-van-heijningen-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:08:06.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthijs-van-heijningen-jr"
name: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
slug: "matthijs-van-heijningen-jr"
description: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. is a Dutch director, writer and producer best known for directing The Thing (2011)."
tagline: "Dutch film director (1965)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gWPNvAVh0lQXpUE7ozEp1V2Qj6k.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.35
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.251948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374048/"
    handle:    "nm0374048"
sources:
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    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماتثيچس ڤان هيچنينجين چر."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen_Jr."
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen_Jr."
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ماتیس ون هایکنینگن جونیور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen_Jr."
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen_Jr."
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%85%8C%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4_%ED%8C%90%ED%97%A4%EC%9D%B4%EB%8B%9D%EC%96%B8_%EC%A3%BC%EB%8B%88%EC%96%B4"
    title: "마테이스 판헤이닝언 주니어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen_Jr."
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen_jr."
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1692687"
    title: "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."
    type:  "DATABASE"

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