# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-norton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:23:12.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-norton"
name: "Alex Norton"
slug: "alex-norton"
description: "Alex Norton is a Scottish actor. He played the roles of DCI Matt Burke in the STV detective drama series Taggart, Eric Baird in BBC Two sitcom Two Doors Down, DCS Wallace in Extremely Dangerous, Gerard Findlay in Waterloo Road and Eddie in the Renford Rejects. He has also had roles in the films Braveheart, Local Hero and Les Misérables."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fnP1fFkqoIhOohylSrkfnFyMOuC.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.67
  momentum:             0.5325348009064422
  historical:           11.36758533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636156/"
    handle:    "nm0636156"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3ed707f6-e6fb-4fba-89be-6a95b120e3ad"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ألكس نورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اليكس نورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "الکس نورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%EB%A0%89%EC%8A%A4_%EB%85%B8%ED%8A%BC"
    title: "알렉스 노튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Norton"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2050620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2451"
    title: "Alex Norton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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