# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shaka-king
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:37:03.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shaka-king"
name: "Shaka King"
slug: "shaka-king"
description: "Shaka King is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known for directing and co-writing the 2021 biopic Judas and the Black Messiah."
tagline: "American film director, screenwriter, and film producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shaka_King_at_Sundance_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.3
  momentum:             8.0290730853118
  historical:           7.125856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3489851/"
    handle:    "nm3489851"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "شاکا کنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_King"
    title: "Shaka King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_King"
    title: "Shaka King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_King"
    title: "Shaka King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "شاکا کینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_King"
    title: "Shaka King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_King"
    title: "Shaka King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104728627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1140231"
    title: "Shaka King"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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