# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-charles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:39:08.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-charles"
name: "Craig Charles"
slug: "craig-charles"
description: "Craig Joseph Charles is an English actor, comedian, presenter and DJ. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera Coronation Street (2005–2015). He presented the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars from 1998 to 2004, and narrated the comedy endurance show Takeshi's Castle. As a DJ, he appears on BBC Radio 6 Music."
tagline: "British actor (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Craig_Charles.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.82583466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "CCfunkandsoul"
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    handle:    "nm0153002"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.craigcharles.co.uk/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Craig Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Charles"
    title: "Craig Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Charles"
    title: "Craig Charles"
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    title: "Craig Charles"
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    title: "Craig Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump