# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nigel-lythgoe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:41.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nigel-lythgoe"
name: "Nigel Lythgoe"
slug: "nigel-lythgoe"
description: "Nigel Lythgoe OBE is an English television and film director and producer, television dance competition judge, former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He was the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol and created the 2009 competition Superstars of Dance. He is also the creator and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance, on which he served as a permanent judge for the first sixteen seasons."
tagline: "Executive producer and television director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nigel_Lythgoe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1949-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.437564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0529328/"
    handle:    "nm0529328"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "نايجل ليثجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "نايجل ليثجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Lythgoe"
    title: "Nigel Lythgoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Lythgoe"
    title: "Nigel Lythgoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ナイジェル・リスゴー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Lythgoe"
    title: "Nigel Lythgoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Lythgoe"
    title: "Nigel Lythgoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Lythgoe"
    title: "Nigel Lythgoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nigel_Lythgoe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1803708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96094"
    title: "Nigel Lythgoe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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