# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-holder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:51.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-holder"
name: "Geoffrey Holder"
slug: "geoffrey-holder"
description: "Geoffrey Lamont Holder was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. For his theatre work, Holder won two Tony Awards, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Costume Design in a Musical for the original Broadway production of The Wiz."
tagline: "Trinidadian-American actor and dancer (1930-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GeoffreyHolder11.15.08ByLuigiNovi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1930-08-01"
deathDate: "2014-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.20439333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390305/"
    handle:    "nm0390305"
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    title: "Geoffrey Holder"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump