# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shawn-ku
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:14.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shawn-ku"
name: "Shawn Ku"
slug: "shawn-ku"
description: "Shawn Ku is a U.S. choreographer and motion picture director. He has also danced on Broadway, and acted in an independent feature-length film. Inspired by his family's personal connection to the Virginia Tech shooting and unexpected death of a visiting friend, Shawn Ku developed his 2010 film Beautiful Boy from those experiences."
tagline: "US film maker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shawn_Ku.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: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             6.685987903225806
  historical:           5.080814666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473329/"
    handle:    "nm0473329"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Ku"
    title: "Shawn Ku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "شون كو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "شون كو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Ku"
    title: "Shawn Ku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "شان کو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54614"
    title: "Shawn Ku"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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