# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-macpherson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:20:36.575Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-macpherson"
name: "Daniel MacPherson"
slug: "daniel-macpherson"
description: "Daniel MacPherson is an Australian actor and television presenter, known for his roles as Joel Samuels in Neighbours, PC Cameron Tait in The Bill, Sergeant Samuel Wyatt in Sky and Cinemax's Strike Back, Whit Carmichael in the Shane Abbess sci-fi film Infini, Arion Elessedil in The Shannara Chronicles and Hugo Crast in the first filmed adaptation of Isaac Asimov's long running Foundation novel series, loosely adapted as Foundation. He also co-hosted Dancing with the Stars for six years while simultaneously starring in a number of Australian dramas such as Wild Boys."
tagline: "Australian actor and television presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_MacPherson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.926084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534205/"
    handle:    "nm0534205"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Макферсон, Дэниэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دانيل ماكفيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_MacPherson"
    title: "Daniel MacPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_MacPherson"
    title: "Daniel MacPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_MacPherson"
    title: "Daniel MacPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دانیل مک‌فرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_MacPherson"
    title: "Daniel MacPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2374646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229432"
    title: "Daniel MacPherson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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