# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-doneger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:57:46.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-doneger"
name: "Michael Doneger"
slug: "michael-doneger"
description: "Michael Doneger is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor based in Los Angeles, California. Doneger is notable as screenwriter of Shelly starring Awkwafina and Karen Gillan, lead actor in the 2015 film The Escort, director of the film Brampton's Own, which starred actors Jean Smart, Alex Russell and Rose McIver, as well as director and producer of the documentary Fate of a Sport that was executive produced by LeBron James and acquired by ESPN Films. Doneger also wrote, directed, and starred in his debut feature film This Thing with Sarah. In addition, Doneger was a former lacrosse player on the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays and San Jose Stealth lacrosse teams."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Doneger_director.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1986-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             3.853208229487368
  historical:           6.219697333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3603758/"
    handle:    "nm3603758"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "مائیکل ڈونیجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "مايكل دونيغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "مايكل دونيجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Doneger"
    title: "Michael Doneger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Doneger"
    title: "Michael Doneger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%EB%8F%84%EB%84%A4%EA%B1%B0"
    title: "마이클 도네거"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72825772"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1294862"
    title: "Michael Doneger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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