# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-matthews
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:18:48.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-matthews"
name: "Chris Matthews"
slug: "chris-matthews"
description: "Christopher John Matthews is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until 2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring, following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier."
tagline: "American political commentator, former talk show host, and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Matthews_2011_Shankbone.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: "1945-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.508005333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1236777/"
    handle:    "nm1236777"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "كريس ماثيوز (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Matthews"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q948687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60092"
    title: "Chris Matthews"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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