# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronan-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:57:46.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronan-bennett"
name: "Ronan Bennett"
slug: "ronan-bennett"
description: "Ronan Bennett is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy. His other writing credits include the 1997 crime film Face, the 2009 Michael Mann crime biopic Public Enemies and the 2017 BBC historical drama miniseries Gunpowder. He has since gone on to create, write and executive-produce the Golden Globe-nominated thriller series The Day of the Jackal, which has been renewed for a second series."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronan_Bennett_(49126247338).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.84
  momentum:             6.833315258648738
  historical:           6.225458666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072032/"
    handle:    "nm0072032"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "رونان بنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Bennett"
    title: "Ronan Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Bennett"
    title: "Ronan Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Bennett"
    title: "Ronan Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Bennett"
    title: "Ronan Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381603"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84665"
    title: "Ronan Bennett"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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