# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-balcer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:32:00.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-balcer"
name: "René Balcer"
slug: "rene-balcer"
description: "René Balcer is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer, and showrunner, as well as a photographer and documentary film-maker."
tagline: "Screenwriter, producer and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ReneBalcer1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-02-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             6.676557863501484
  historical:           5.127650666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049569/"
    handle:    "nm0049569"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Balcer"
    title: "René Balcer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "رين بالسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Balcer"
    title: "René Balcer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Balcer"
    title: "René Balcer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rene_Balcer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3425789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1217989"
    title: "René Balcer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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