# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melina-matsoukas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:15:52.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melina-matsoukas"
name: "Melina Matsoukas"
slug: "melina-matsoukas"
description: "Melina Matsoukas is an American music video, film, commercial and television director. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and four-time MTV Video Music Awards winner for her \"We Found Love\" and \"Formation\" music videos. She was honored with the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal by the American Film Institute in 2019. Her directorial debut in film was Queen & Slim, starring Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya, and written by Lena Waithe. She then worked as executive producer and director for television series Insecure, being nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020."
tagline: "American music video, film, commercial and television director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3LSNxobNfUBmVbtwNx8Z5YV5wRN.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: "1981-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.32
  momentum:             1.526254375729288
  historical:           16.777804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/melinamatsoukas"
    handle:    "melinamatsoukas"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2027419/"
    handle:    "nm2027419"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Melina Matsoukas"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melina Matsoukas"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Matsoukas"
    title: "Melina Matsoukas"
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    title: "Мацукас, Мелина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Melina Matsoukas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump