# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-shadyac
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:46:05.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-shadyac"
name: "Tom Shadyac"
slug: "tom-shadyac"
description: "Thomas Peter Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and writer. The youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, Shadyac is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Patch Adams (1998), and Bruce Almighty (2003). In 2010, Shadyac retired from the comedy genre and wrote, directed, and narrated his own documentary film I Am, that explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following his involvement in a bicycle accident three years earlier."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Tom_Shadyac_on_RealTVfilms.jpg/330px-Tom_Shadyac_on_RealTVfilms.jpg"
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: "1958-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6215213358070502
  historical:           20.62187333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001723/"
    handle:    "nm0001723"
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    title: "Tom Shadyac"
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    title: "Tom Shadyac"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump