# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-mcdiarmid
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:29:08.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-mcdiarmid"
name: "Ian McDiarmid"
slug: "ian-mcdiarmid"
description: "Ian McDiarmid is a Scottish actor and director of stage and screen. Making his stage debut in Hamlet in 1972, McDiarmid joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974, and has since starred in a number of William Shakespeare's plays. He has received an Olivier Award for Best Actor for Insignificance (1982) and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Faith Healer (2006)."
tagline: "Scottish actor and stage director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_McDiarmid_Brussels_Comic_Con_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-08-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump