# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shawn-slovo
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:13:18.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shawn-slovo"
name: "Shawn Slovo"
slug: "shawn-slovo"
description: "Shawn Slovo is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire, and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin."
tagline: "Screenwriter"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.96
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.287798666666667
  currentAttention:     87.54208754208757
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806256/"
    handle:    "nm0806256"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Slovo"
    title: "Shawn Slovo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88"
    title: "شان اسلوو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Slovo"
    title: "Shawn Slovo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Slovo"
    title: "Shawn Slovo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Slovo"
    title: "Shawn Slovo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15539"
    title: "Shawn Slovo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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