# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-mcelhinney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:10:21.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-mcelhinney"
name: "Ian McElhinney"
slug: "ian-mcelhinney"
description: "Ian McElhinney is a Northern Irish actor and director. He has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than forty years; notable appearances include Taggart, Hornblower, Cold Feet, and The Tudors. In recent times, his best known roles are as Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, Morgan Monroe in The Fall, and Granda Joe in Derry Girls."
tagline: "Northern Irish actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_McElhinney_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.08
  momentum:             0.5570032573289905
  historical:           18.62584933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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sources:
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    title: "Макэлхинни, Иэн"
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    title: "Ієн Мак-Елгінні"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump