# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-cotton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:48:10.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-cotton"
name: "Ben Cotton"
slug: "ben-cotton"
description: "Ben Cotton is a Canadian film and television actor. His most notable roles are on the TV series Stargate Atlantis playing scientist Dr. Kavanagh, his portrayal of \"Leon Bell\" in the game Dead Rising 2, Shane Pierce, the local townie, on CBS's Harper's Island and Lt. Coker Fasjovik in Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome."
tagline: "Actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gn8KZSkxZs0c95ARpjXvxBtwwlX.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.5
  momentum:             8.274687854710557
  historical:           9.944468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0970805/"
    handle:    "nm0970805"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Коттон, Бен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بن كوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بن كوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cotton"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cotton"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cotton"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cotton"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A4_%EC%BD%94%ED%8A%BC"
    title: "벤 코튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cotton"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cotton"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816469"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72099"
    title: "Ben Cotton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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