# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thierry-michel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:44.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thierry-michel"
name: "Thierry Michel"
slug: "thierry-michel"
description: "Thierry Michel is a Belgian film director, mostly making social and political documentaries.\nHis office and company Les films de la passerelle is located in Liège, where he works with the producer Christine Pireaux.\nOver a twenty-year period he has made a series of documentaries on different aspects of Zaire .\nTaken together his films provide a unique overview of the social, economic and political life of the country."
tagline: "Filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thierry_Michel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.62
  momentum:             0.5074626865671642
  historical:           5.479338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584921/"
    handle:    "nm0584921"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.thierrymichel-cineaste.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Michel"
    title: "Thierry Michel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "تييري ميشيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "تييرى ميشيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Michel"
    title: "Thierry Michel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Michel"
    title: "Thierry Michel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1157255"
    title: "Thierry Michel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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