# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-fontana
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:56:56.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-fontana"
name: "Tom Fontana"
slug: "tom-fontana"
description: "Tom Fontana is an American screenwriter, writer, and television producer. Fontana worked on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street and created HBO's Oz."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Fontana_at_Montclair_Film_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.021538461538461
  historical:           10.66009466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284956/"
    handle:    "nm0284956"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tomfontana.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توم فونتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fontana"
    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fontana"
    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fontana"
    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fontana"
    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fontana"
    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8A"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фонтана, Том"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Tom Fontana"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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