# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iota
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:15:39.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iota"
name: "iOTA"
slug: "iota"
description: "Sean Hape, known professionally as Iota, is a New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and actor. As a musician, he has released six studio albums and was nominated for Best Independent Release for The Hip Bone Connection (1999) at the ARIA Music Awards of 2000. He has won four Helpmann Awards: Best Male Actor in a Musical in 2007 for Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Best Cabaret Performer, Best New Australian Work and Best Original Score for his work in Smoke and Mirrors in 2010."
tagline: "Australian entertainer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7M5UNXClGVGOg9Onwq5IKVuNO8K.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1968-05-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.87
  momentum:             1.441475348136997
  historical:           8.242773333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5208473/"
    handle:    "nm5208473"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/514957"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_(sanger)"
    title: "Iota (sanger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "ايوتا (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "آیوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_(singer)"
    title: "Iota (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "آیوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_(musicien)"
    title: "Iota (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOTA"
    title: "IOTA"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5930e4b8-0fc6-4dbf-b7e8-743f26744ff3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5972922"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1272941"
    title: "Iota"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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