# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-almereyda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:44:50.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-almereyda"
name: "Michael Almereyda"
slug: "michael-almereyda"
description: "Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla. His films include Hamlet (2000) and Experimenter (2015). His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter (born 1959)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oiMAcT7GwLXBKTYWLl9FDBqrwHX.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.258716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021899/"
    handle:    "nm0021899"
sources:
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    title: "마이클 알메레이다"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Almereyda"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump