# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/djimon-hounsou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:02:03.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/djimon-hounsou"
name: "Djimon Hounsou"
slug: "djimon-hounsou"
description: "Djimon Gaston Hounsou is a Beninese-American actor. He began his career appearing in music videos and made his film debut in Without You I'm Nothing (1990). He then earned widespread recognition for his role as Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad (1997), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. For his performances in In America (2002) and Blood Diamond (2006), Hounsou was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor."
tagline: "Beninese actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Djimon_Hounsou_push_premiere_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           28.02498
  currentAttention:     10.36
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump