# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-penn
# Generated: 2026-09-03T13:18:05.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-penn"
name: "Chris Penn"
slug: "chris-penn"
description: "Christopher Shannon Penn was an American actor. He was the younger brother of both actor and filmmaker Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn. Noted as a skilled character actor, he was typically cast as a tough character, featured as a villain or a working-class thug, or in a comic role."
tagline: "American actor (1965–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Chris_Penn.jpg"
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: "1965-10-10"
deathDate: "2006-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.79
  momentum:             1.518331001709857
  historical:           26.86800933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001606/"
    handle:    "nm0001606"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Chris Penn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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