# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-carruth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:32:16.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-carruth"
name: "Shane Carruth"
slug: "shane-carruth"
description: "Shane Carruth is an American filmmaker, known for science-fiction features in which he has filled numerous jobs, including producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and actor. These include his prize-winning debut Primer (2004) and Upstream Color (2013). In reference to Carruth's unusual filmmaking technique, director Steven Soderbergh described him as \"the illegitimate offspring of David Lynch and James Cameron.\""
tagline: "Film producer, actor, screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shane_Carruth_(8748841070).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           65.46
  momentum:             12.86239744490094
  historical:           15.32971466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 280
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/carruthshane"
    handle:    "carruthshane"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503403/"
    handle:    "nm1503403"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "47MxpW1RYHRpHu56qhC1xh"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2BfpVPs2KFtnj1zfb5K6A"
    handle:    "Shane Carruth - Topic"
    followers: 280
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شين كاروث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شين كاروث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شین کاروث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شەین کاروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شین کاروث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Carruth"
    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "쉐인 카루스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кэррут, Шейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Shane Carruth"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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