# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dwight-henry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:48:42.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dwight-henry"
name: "Dwight Henry"
slug: "dwight-henry"
description: "Dwight Henry is an American actor, baker, and businessman. He is best known for his role as Wink, Hushpuppy's father, in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Additionally, Henry is the founder of the Buttermilk Drop Bakery in New Orleans."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dwight_Henry_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.74
  momentum:             5.468749999999998
  historical:           7.901838666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4833412/"
    handle:    "nm4833412"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%B9_%DB%81%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ڈوائٹ ہنری (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Henry_(akteur)"
    title: "Dwight Henry (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "دوايت هنري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Henry_(actor)"
    title: "Dwight Henry (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Henry"
    title: "Dwight Henry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Henry"
    title: "Dwight Henry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%93%9C%EC%99%80%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8_%ED%97%A8%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "드와이트 헨리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82"
    title: "Хенри, Дуайт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5318180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1055236"
    title: "Dwight Henry"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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