# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheila-nevins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:44:49.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheila-nevins"
name: "Sheila Nevins"
slug: "sheila-nevins"
description: "Sheila Nevins is an American television producer and former head of MTV Documentary Films division of MTV Entertainment Studios. Previously, Nevins was the president of HBO Documentary Films, where she produced over 1,000 documentary films. She has worked on productions that have been recognized with 35 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, 42 Peabody Awards, and 26 Academy Awards. Nevins has won 31 individual Primetime Emmy Awards, more than any other person. She is also a member of\nthe board of directors for the Peabody Awards."
tagline: "Television producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheila_Nevins_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1939-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.78
  momentum:             7.907713794585304
  historical:           7.256628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/thesheilanevins"
    handle:    "thesheilanevins"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627521/"
    handle:    "nm0627521"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sheilanevins.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%8C%E6%8B%89%C2%B7%E5%86%85%E6%96%87%E6%96%AF"
    title: "希拉·内文斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Nevins"
    title: "Sheila Nevins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Nevins"
    title: "Sheila Nevins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "شیلا نوینز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Nevins"
    title: "Sheila Nevins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Невинс, Шейла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Шейла Невінс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493119"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1238136"
    title: "Sheila Nevins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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