# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-barretta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:50:04.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-barretta"
name: "Bill Barretta"
slug: "bill-barretta"
description: "William Barretta is an American puppeteer, producer, writer, director, and actor, best known for his involvement with the Muppets. He performs the Muppet characters Pepe the King Prawn, Bobo the Bear, Johnny Fiama, Rowlf the Dog, The Swedish Chef, and Dr. Teeth. He originated the role of Louie, Elmo's dad, on Sesame Street."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BillBarretta.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: "1964-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.93
  momentum:             1.23196448390677
  historical:           10.86980933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/billbarretta"
    handle:    "billbarretta"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057321/"
    handle:    "nm0057321"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيل باريتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيل باريتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیڵ بارێتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Barretta"
    title: "Bill Barretta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Barretta"
    title: "Bill Barretta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Barretta"
    title: "Bill Barretta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ביל ברטה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ビル・バレッタ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Barretta"
    title: "Bill Barretta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Barretta"
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    title: "بل بیریٹا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Bill Barretta"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump