# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-w-downs
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:35:51.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-w-downs"
name: "Paul W. Downs"
slug: "paul-w-downs"
description: "Paul William Downs is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is the co-creator, co-showrunner and one of the stars of the HBO Max series Hacks, for which he has received two Golden Globes, a Peabody Award, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, among others. Downs first gained attention for his role in the Comedy Central series Broad City, which ran for five seasons and for which he was also a writer, director, and executive producer."
tagline: "American actor, writer, and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulWDowns_2DopeQueens_LA.png?width=1200"
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category:
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birthDate: "1981-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump