# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-matalas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:48:00.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-matalas"
name: "Terry Matalas"
slug: "terry-matalas"
description: "Terry Matalas is an American television writer, director, and executive producer, best known for co-creating and showrunning 12 Monkeys (2015–18), which ran for four seasons on SyFy. He was a showrunner on the fourth season of MacGyver for CBS (2020) and the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+ (2022–23)."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Terry_Matalas_at_53rd_Saturn_Awards_2026-01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1975-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             0.9671993271656856
  historical:           6.474165333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TerryMatalas"
    handle:    "TerryMatalas"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/terrymatalas/"
    handle:    "terrymatalas"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558052/"
    handle:    "nm0558052"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matalas"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matalas"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matalas"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matalas"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matalas"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matalas"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252001"
    title: "Terry Matalas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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