# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nietzchka-keene
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:25:34.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nietzchka-keene"
name: "Nietzchka Keene"
slug: "nietzchka-keene"
description: "Nietzchka Keene was an American film director and writer best known for The Juniper Tree, a feature film shot in Iceland starring the Icelandic singer Björk in her first film role. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the spring of 2004 and died, aged 52, on October 20, 2004. She taught film making and editing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until her death."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/Nietzchka_keene.jpg/330px-Nietzchka_keene.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952"
deathDate: "2004-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.806804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444729/"
    handle:    "nm0444729"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B7%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%A7_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "نطشکا کینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "نيتزتشكا كين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzchka_Keene"
    title: "Nietzchka Keene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzchka_Keene"
    title: "Nietzchka Keene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzchka_Keene"
    title: "Nietzchka Keene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzchka_Keene"
    title: "Nietzchka Keene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzchka_Keene"
    title: "Nietzchka Keene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15458634"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/231974"
    title: "Nietzchka Keene"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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