# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rian-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:55:33.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rian-johnson"
name: "Rian Johnson"
slug: "rian-johnson"
description: "Rian Craig Johnson is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the neo-noir mystery film Brick (2005), which received positive reviews and grossed nearly $4 million on a $450,000 budget. Going on to make higher-profile films, Johnson achieved mainstream recognition for writing and directing the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012) to critical and commercial success. Johnson landed his largest project when he wrote and directed the space opera Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), which grossed over $1 billion. He returned to the mystery genre with the Knives Out film series (2019–present), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay."
tagline: "American filmmaker (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rian_Johnson_by_Gage_Skidmore_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 249
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump