# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dayanand-shetty
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:44.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dayanand-shetty"
name: "Dayanand Shetty"
slug: "dayanand-shetty"
description: "Dayanand Chandrashekhar Shetty is an Indian film and television actor and model, best known for his role as Senior Inspector Daya in India's longest-running television police procedural, CID. He was inducted into the Gold Awards Hall of Fame in 2018."
tagline: "Indian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dayanand_Shetty.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1969-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.39
  momentum:             11.83430775003063
  historical:           10.08829333333333
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "thedayashetty"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2738079/"
    handle:    "nm2738079"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیانند شیٹی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump