# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chocolat
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:37:48.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chocolat"
name: "Chocolat"
slug: "chocolat"
description: "Rafael Padilla, known professionally as Chocolat, was a clown who performed in a Paris circus around the 1900s. Rafael was of Afro-Cuban descent and was one of the earliest successful black entertainers in modern France. He was the first black clown to play a lead role in a circus pantomime act, and with his longtime partner George Foottit, they revolutionized the art of clowning by pairing the sophisticated white clown with the foolish auguste clown."
tagline: "Clown of Afro-Cuban descent"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chocolat_-_Du_Guy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1865"
deathDate: "1917-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.95
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.316172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8284616/"
    handle:    "nm8284616"
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_(%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD)"
    title: "Чоколада (кловн)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat"
    title: "Chocolat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7)"
    title: "شوكولاته (ممثل من كوبا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat_(clown)"
    title: "Chocolat (clown)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat_(payaso)"
    title: "Chocolat (payaso)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat_(clown)"
    title: "Chocolat (clown)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93_(%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%9F)"
    title: "שוקולד (ליצן)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat_(clown)"
    title: "Chocolat (clown)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_(%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD)"
    title: "Чоколада (кловн)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat_(palha%C3%A7o)"
    title: "Chocolat (palhaço)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2964260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6009100"
    title: "Chocolat"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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