# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-zwigoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:08:25.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-zwigoff"
name: "Terry Zwigoff"
slug: "terry-zwigoff"
description: "Terry Zwigoff is an American film director whose work often deals with misfits, antiheroes, and themes of alienation. He first garnered attention for his work in documentary filmmaking with Louie Bluie (1985) and Crumb (1995). After Crumb, Zwigoff moved on to write and direct fiction feature films, including the Academy Award-nominated Ghost World (2001) and Bad Santa (2003)."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2012-09-27_Portrait_Terry_Zwigoff_with_Lilypads_(melanieTZ3)_UNC_715x861.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: "1949-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.05
  momentum:             4.332751853467074
  historical:           16.636628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959062/"
    handle:    "nm0959062"
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    title: "Terry Zwigoff"
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    title: "Terry Zwigoff"
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    title: "Terry Zwigoff"
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    title: "Цвигофф, Терри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump