# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-mathison
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:42:30.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-mathison"
name: "Melissa Mathison"
slug: "melissa-mathison"
description: "Melissa Marie Mathison was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She wrote the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay."
tagline: "American film and television screenwriter (1950–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Melissa_Mathison.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1950-06-03"
deathDate: "2015-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  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