# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randa-haines
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:39:28.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randa-haines"
name: "Randa Haines"
slug: "randa-haines"
description: "Randa Jo Haines is an American film and television director and producer. Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including Let's Scare Jessica to Death and The Groove Tube. She is best known for directing the critically acclaimed feature film Children of a Lesser God (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as Best Actress, and which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including an Academy Award for Best Picture. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival."
tagline: "Film director, Screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/f5kyZ9vpyNF8cYbGZS7uAio7er6.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: "1945-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.30144266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354279/"
    handle:    "nm0354279"
sources:
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    title: "رندا ہینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راندا هاينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Haines"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Haines"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Haines"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Haines"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Haines"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Haines"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ランダ・ヘインズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Хейнс, Рэнда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "రాండా హైన్స్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19798"
    title: "Randa Haines"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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