# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-james-olmos
# Generated: 2026-09-03T15:28:31.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-james-olmos"
name: "Edward James Olmos"
slug: "edward-james-olmos"
description: "Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Lieutenant Martin \"Marty\" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), high school math teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), Montoya Santana in American Me (1992), and William Adama in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_James_Olmos_by_Gage_Skidmore.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: "1947-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.59
  momentum:             5.011871189236787
  historical:           28.18166933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001579/"
    handle:    "nm0001579"
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    url:       "http://edwardjamesolmos.com/"
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    title: "এডওয়ার্ড জেমস অলমস"
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    title: "Έντουαρντ Τζέιμς Όλμος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward James Olmos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward James Olmos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward James Olmos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward James Olmos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward James Olmos"
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    title: "Edward James Olmos"
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    title: "אדוארד ג'יימס אולמוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587"
    title: "Edward James Olmos"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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