# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-forrest
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:38.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-forrest"
name: "Edwin Forrest"
slug: "edwin-forrest"
description: "Edwin Forrest was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849."
tagline: "American actor (1806-1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edwin_Forrest.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: "1806-03-09"
deathDate: "1872-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.100506666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edwin Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوين فوريست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forrest"
    title: "Edwin Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forrest"
    title: "Edwin Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forrest"
    title: "Edwin Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forrest"
    title: "Edwin Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%A4%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%96%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%A9"
    title: "Էդվին Ֆորեսթ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forrest"
    title: "Edwin Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Форрест, Эдвин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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