# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maya-deren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:40:15.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maya-deren"
name: "Maya Deren"
slug: "maya-deren"
description: "Maya Deren was a Russian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer."
tagline: "Ukranian-born American avant-garde filmmaker (1917–1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maya_Deren.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-04-29"
deathDate: "1961-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump