# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bishesh-huirem
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:56:27.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bishesh-huirem"
name: "Bishesh Huirem"
slug: "bishesh-huirem"
description: "Bishesh Huirem is an Indian actress and model from the Meitei ethnicity of Manipur. She is best known for being the first Indian to represent India at the Miss International Queen for Transgender 2016 organised in Pattaya, Thailand. She is the first Indian transgender to be appointed as a state icon for the parliamentary polls in the Lok Sabha elections. She is the first transgender to win the \"Best Actor Award\" in the 14th Manipur State Film Awards, 2022. It's Not My Choice directed by Priyakanta Laishram, and Apaiba Leichil directed by Bobby Wahengbam are some of her notable films."
tagline: "Indian actress and model"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bishesh_Huirem_in_2022_at_the_trailer_launch_of_ONENESS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Models"
  slug: "models"
profileType:
  name: "Model"
  slug: "model"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           44
  momentum:             9.193548387096774
  historical:           8.409792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12918906/"
    handle:    "nm12918906"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "বিশেষ হুইরেম"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishesh_Huirem"
    title: "Bishesh Huirem"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Bishesh Huirem"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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