# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-ancel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:20:18.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-ancel"
name: "Michel Ancel"
slug: "michel-ancel"
description: "Michel Ancel is a retired Monégasque-French video game designer. He is best known for creating the Rayman franchise and was the lead designer or director for several of the games, including Rayman Origins (2011) and its sequel Rayman Legends (2013). He is also known for the critically acclaimed video game Beyond Good & Evil, as well as for King Kong, based on Peter Jackson's 2005 film of the same name. In 2017, he began work on Beyond Good and Evil 2, although he left the project in 2020."
tagline: "French video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Ancel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.34674666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/michelancel/"
    handle:    "michelancel"
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-ancel-24b57114/"
    handle:    "michel-ancel-24b57114"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1885707/"
    handle:    "nm1885707"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michel Ancel"
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    title: "Michel Ancel"
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    title: "Michel Ancel"
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    title: "Michel Ancel"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Michel Ancel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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