# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-poliakoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:27:37.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-poliakoff"
name: "Stephen Poliakoff"
slug: "stephen-poliakoff"
description: "Stephen Poliakoff is a British playwright, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of The Independent described him as the UK's \"pre-eminent TV dramatist\" and that he had \"inherited Dennis Potter's crown\"."
tagline: "British television director and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Poliakoff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           11.932156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump