# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-melamed
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:59:31.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-melamed"
name: "Fred Melamed"
slug: "fred-melamed"
description: "Fred Melamed is an American actor. After spending most of his early career primarily as a voice over artist, and occasionally playing small roles in films, including in seven films directed by Woody Allen, he established himself as a major character actor with his role as Sy Ableman in the Coen brothers' A Serious Man (2009). Other film credits have included In a World... (2012), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Shiva Baby (2020)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FredMelamed_(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: "1956-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.88
  momentum:             0.702882738026875
  historical:           16.535484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577329/"
    handle:    "nm0577329"
sources:
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    title: "弗雷德·邁拉麥德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريد ميلاميد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Melamed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Melamed"
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    title: "Fred Melamed"
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    title: "Fred Melamed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Melamed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "フレッド・メラメッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "프레드 멜라메드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Melamed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "เฟรด เมลาเมด"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فریڈ میلمڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105303"
    title: "Fred Melamed"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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