# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-tolkin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:15.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-tolkin"
name: "Michael Tolkin"
slug: "michael-tolkin"
description: "Michael L. Tolkin is an American screenwriter, novelist, and director. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his own 1988 novel of the same name, and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (1993) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He later wrote a follow-up to the novel, titled The Return of the Player, which was published in 2006."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Tolkin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.35796266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Michael_Tolkin"
    handle:    "Michael_Tolkin"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866062/"
    handle:    "nm0866062"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.michaeltolkin.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%B9%D9%88%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%86"
    title: "مائیکل ٹولکن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل تولكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل تولكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tolkin"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tolkin"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tolkin"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "مایکل تالکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tolkin"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tolkin"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tolkin"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Толкин, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1723417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16939"
    title: "Michael Tolkin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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