# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-gillies
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:30:57.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-gillies"
name: "Daniel Gillies"
slug: "daniel-gillies"
description: "Daniel Joshua Gillies is a Canadian-born New Zealand actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. He played Elijah Mikaelson on The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off, The Originals; Dr. Joel Goran on Saving Hope. He wrote and directed the 2012 film, Broken Kingdom."
tagline: "Canadian-born New Zealand actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Gillies_at_PaleyFest_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1976-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  86
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump