# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-elton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:57:01.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-elton"
name: "Ben Elton"
slug: "ben-elton"
description: "Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up comedian and on screen. One of the major figures in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, he used a style of left-wing political satire in his early stand-up comedy."
tagline: "British comedian, author, playwright, actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Elton_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0255780"
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    url:       "http://benelton.net"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump