# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-esmail
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:25.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-esmail"
name: "Sam Esmail"
slug: "sam-esmail"
description: "Sam Esmail is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter who runs the production company Esmail Corp. He is best known as the creator, writer, and director of the award-winning USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), starring Rami Malek. He wrote and directed the feature films Comet (2014) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He produced and directed the first season of the acclaimed Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller Homecoming (2018–2020), starring Julia Roberts and Janelle Monáe, and produced USA's Briarpatch (2020), Starz's Gaslit (2022), and Peacock's Angelyne (2022) and The Resort (2022). Esmail's work often centers on the themes of alienation, technology, and American society."
tagline: "Egyptian-American director and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Esmail_at_SXSW_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.74205466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/samesmail"
    handle:    "samesmail"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/samesmail/"
    handle:    "samesmail"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1322753/"
    handle:    "nm1322753"
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    title: "സാം എസ്മെയിൽ"
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    title: "Sam Esmail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сем Есмейл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump