# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-irwin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:28:56.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-irwin"
name: "Bill Irwin"
slug: "bill-irwin"
description: "William Mills Irwin is an American actor, choreographer, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He also worked as a choreographer on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1989 for Largely New York. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on the Sesame Street segment Elmo's World, and he appeared in the Sesame Street film short Does Air Move Things? He has regularly appeared as Dr. Peter Lindstrom on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and had a recurring role as \"The Dick & Jane Killer\" on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. From 2017 to 2019, he appeared as Cary Loudermilk on the FX television series Legion."
tagline: "American actor, clown, and comedian (born 1950)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1950-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump