# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-lawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:44:10.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-lawson"
name: "Denis Lawson"
slug: "denis-lawson"
description: "Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983) and as John Jarndyce in the television miniseries Bleak House (2005), the latter of which earned him BAFTA Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also appeared in the television series The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984–1986), Holby City, and New Tricks (2012–2015), and reprised the role of Antilles in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). On the stage, he is a three-time Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical nominee, winning in 1983 for Mr Cinders."
tagline: "Scottish actor (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denis_Lawson_cropped.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: "1947-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.67046933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493200/"
    handle:    "nm0493200"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Lawson"
    title: "Denis Lawson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Lawson"
    title: "Denis Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "דניס לוסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "デニス・ローソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "데니스 로슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
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    title: "Denis Lawson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump