# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frankie-faison
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:14:46.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frankie-faison"
name: "Frankie Faison"
slug: "frankie-faison"
description: "Frankie Russel Faison is an American actor known for his role as Commissioner Ervin Burrell in the HBO series The Wire, as Barney Matthews in the Hannibal Lecter franchise, and as Sugar Bates in the Cinemax series Banshee."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frankie_Faison_(30608968485)_(cropped).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: "1949-06-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.03
  momentum:             0.4285751572573278
  historical:           22.63838
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265670/"
    handle:    "nm0265670"
sources:
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Faison"
    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фэйсон, Фрэнки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q943589"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Frankie Faison"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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