# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anoop-desai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:37:51.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anoop-desai"
name: "Anoop Desai"
slug: "anoop-desai"
description: "Anoop Manoj Desai is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He began his career as the sixth place finisher on the eighth season of American Idol, after which he began writing and performing music under the pseudonym TOTEM. Since 2020, Desai has devoted his time to acting, most notably as The Djinn on the fourth and fifth seasons of What We Do In the Shadows."
tagline: "Actor, singer, and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anoop_Desai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1986-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.52
  momentum:             1.884422110552764
  historical:           6.865556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/anoopdoggdesai"
    handle:    "anoopdoggdesai"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/IAmAnoopDesai"
    handle:    "IAmAnoopDesai"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3333545/"
    handle:    "nm3333545"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.anoopdesai.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bdaca642-21e7-4ff2-bc00-4a8b787dff62"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "أنوب ديساي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D9%86%D9%88%D9%88%D9%BE_%D8%AF%DB%8E%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "ئەنووپ دێسای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoop_Desai"
    title: "Anoop Desai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoop_Desai"
    title: "Anoop Desai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoop_Desai"
    title: "Anoop Desai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%8A%AA%E6%99%AE%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E8%B3%BD"
    title: "阿努普·德賽"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3549949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2710821"
    title: "Anoop Desai"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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