# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taffy-brodesser-akner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:18:36.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taffy-brodesser-akner"
name: "Taffy Brodesser-Akner"
slug: "taffy-brodesser-akner"
description: "Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an American journalist and author. She has worked freelance and as a contributor to GQ and The New York Times, where she is now a staff writer. Her profiles of celebrities have won her the New York Press Club Award and Mirror Award. She is the author of novels Long Island Compromise and Fleishman Is in Trouble. The latter was made into a seven-time Emmy-nominated miniseries, which she also wrote."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1gLSs00hK48MDUh1tPlVfRbyFyY.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1975-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.042341333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/taffyakner"
    handle:    "taffyakner"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10368081/"
    handle:    "nm10368081"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.taffyakner.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "تافى بروديسير اكنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Brodesser-Akner"
    title: "Taffy Brodesser-Akner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Brodesser-Akner"
    title: "Taffy Brodesser-Akner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Brodesser-Akner"
    title: "Taffy Brodesser-Akner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A1%D7%A8-%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%A8"
    title: "טאפי ברודסר-אקנר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47241142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3399878"
    title: "Taffy Brodesser-Akner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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