# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susanna-salonen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:57:25.729Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susanna-salonen"
name: "Susanna Salonen"
slug: "susanna-salonen"
description: "Susanna Salonen is a Finnish-German film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Born in 1966 in Finland, Salonen grew up in Lübeck and trained as a camerawoman in Berlin. She has shot several award-winning documentaries, and written and directed fiction films. Her fiction debut Patong Girl won the prestigious German Grimme award in 2016. Salonen is a member of the German film academy."
tagline: "Finnish film director"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.92
  momentum:             7.380952380952381
  historical:           5.935961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758961/"
    handle:    "nm0758961"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Salonen"
    title: "Susanna Salonen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "سوسانا سالونين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Salonen"
    title: "Susanna Salonen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Salonen"
    title: "Susanna Salonen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Salonen"
    title: "Susanna Salonen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Salonen"
    title: "Susanna Salonen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17326458"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1304901"
    title: "Susanna Salonen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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