# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-gaghan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:12.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-gaghan"
name: "Stephen Gaghan"
slug: "stephen-gaghan"
description: "Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the thriller Abandon and the family film Dolittle, and directed the drama Gold."
tagline: "American screenwriter and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Gaghan_(cropped).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: "1965-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.52
  momentum:             0.0933771398927892
  historical:           19.210132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/gaghan"
    handle:    "gaghan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300866/"
    handle:    "nm0300866"
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    title: "Stephen Gaghan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Gaghan"
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    title: "سٹیفن گاگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1971984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2945"
    title: "Stephen Gaghan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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