# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-mendes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:38:54.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-mendes"
name: "Sam Mendes"
slug: "sam-mendes"
description: "Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes is a British filmmaker and stage director. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the \"100 most powerful people in British culture\"."
tagline: "British stage and film director (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Mendes_in_2022_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1965-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump