# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aart-staartjes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:56:46.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aart-staartjes"
name: "Aart Staartjes"
slug: "aart-staartjes"
description: "Aart Staartjes was a Dutch actor, director, television presenter and documentary maker from Amsterdam. He portrayed Meneer Aart on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. The character was used in the title of his 2002 biography Meneer Aart: Leven en werken van de man die geen kindervriend wil heten."
tagline: "Dutch actor (1938–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Winnaars_van_de_Nipkowschijf_Aart_Staa%2C_Bestanddeelnr_930-4899_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-03-01"
deathDate: "2020-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.61385809926043
  historical:           11.95360666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820868/"
    handle:    "nm0820868"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump