# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-ryan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:06:37.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-ryan"
name: "Christopher Ryan"
slug: "christopher-ryan"
description: "Christopher Papazoglou, known professionally as Christopher Ryan, is a British actor. He is known for his sitcom roles including Mike The Cool Person in The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in Bottom, Edina Monsoon's ex-husband Marshall Turtle in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous and Tony Driscoll in Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off The Green Green Grass. He has appeared in Doctor Who in the alien roles of Kiv in The Trial of a Time Lord (1986) and Sontaran General Staal."
tagline: "English actor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Christopher_Ryan.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.993582666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752474/"
    handle:    "nm0752474"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eb397544-ce2f-4dde-879e-c764cd2151bb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan"
    title: "Christopher Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan_(sk%C3%A5despelare)"
    title: "Christopher Ryan (skådespelare)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3360810"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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