# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-pileggi
# Generated: 2026-09-03T13:27:27.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-pileggi"
name: "Nicholas Pileggi"
slug: "nicholas-pileggi"
description: "Nicholas Pileggi is an American author, screenwriter, film producer and journalist. He is the widower of director and journalist Nora Ephron. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicholas_Pieggi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-02-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.70623733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0683380"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump