# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-starkey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:24:06.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-starkey"
name: "Dan Starkey"
slug: "dan-starkey"
description: "Dan Starkey is an English actor known for making numerous appearances in the BBC One science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. He has portrayed a number of different Sontaran characters, most notably Strax, who has come across the Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi respectively. In 2016, he joined the CBBC sketch show, Class Dismissed and has appeared in 36 episodes. He left the show after Series 3."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Starkey_2015.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1977-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             0.9121621621621622
  historical:           7.717426666666666
  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/nm2396083/"
    handle:    "nm2396083"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/28ef7faa-ac3c-4798-ac40-bec6076b086f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "دان ستاركى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Starkey_(actor)"
    title: "Dan Starkey (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Starkey"
    title: "Dan Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Starkey"
    title: "Dan Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Starkey"
    title: "Dan Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Starkey"
    title: "Dan Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Starkey"
    title: "Dan Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1261087"
    title: "Dan Starkey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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