# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:31:18.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-hopkins"
name: "Bruce Hopkins"
slug: "bruce-hopkins"
description: "Raymond Bruce Hopkins is a New Zealand actor, most famous for his portrayal of Gamling in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy by Peter Jackson and for playing the voice of evil alien Choobo on Power Rangers Ninja Storm. He also founded ActionActors, an actor-specific temporary employment agency, with Bruce Hurst."
tagline: "New Zealand actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Hopkins_on_The_Cafe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-11-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.97
  momentum:             1.182450508293205
  historical:           7.941906666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394126/"
    handle:    "nm0394126"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بروس هوبكنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins_(actor)"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hopkins"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2445092"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/167035"
    title: "Bruce Hopkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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