# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-labute
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:58:29.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-labute"
name: "Neil LaBute"
slug: "neil-labute"
description: "Neil N. LaBute is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play which he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), winning awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. He wrote and directed the films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Possession (2002), The Shape of Things (2003), The Wicker Man (2006), Some Velvet Morning (2013), and Dirty Weekend (2015)."
tagline: "American writer and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neil_LaBute_2010_photo_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.143640034612056
  historical:           15.81150533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001438"
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    title: "Neil LaBute"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil LaBute"
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    title: "Neil LaBute"
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    title: "ניל לביוט"
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    title: "Лабут, Нил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump