# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-blackwell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:57:42.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-blackwell"
name: "Simon Blackwell"
slug: "simon-blackwell"
description: "Simon John Blackwell is an English comedy writer and producer. He is best known for his work on The Thick of It, In The Loop and Veep, and for his collaborations with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain on Peep Show, Four Lions and The Old Guys. Blackwell is the creator of the comedy series Back, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, as well as Breeders, starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard."
tagline: "British comedy writer and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Blackwell_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             7.800125707102452
  historical:           5.568618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/simonblackwell"
    handle:    "simonblackwell"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1006581/"
    handle:    "nm1006581"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Blackwell"
    title: "Simon Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "سيمون بلاكويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Blackwell"
    title: "Simon Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Blackwell"
    title: "Simon Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Blackwell"
    title: "Simon Blackwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7518291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93494"
    title: "Simon Blackwell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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