# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-mears
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:02:05.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-mears"
name: "Derek Mears"
slug: "derek-mears"
description: "Derek Mears is an American actor and stuntman. Often appearing in horror and science-fiction titles, he came to prominence for portraying Jason Voorhees in the 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th. His film roles also include The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007), Predators (2010), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), and Alita: Battle Angel (2019). On television, he played the title character on the DC Universe series Swamp Thing (2019)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Mears_Photo_Op_Animate_Nightmare_Weekend_Des_Moines_2024_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-04-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7922364840251143
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "DerekMears"
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    handle:    "derekmears"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump