# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-frain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:46:05.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-frain"
name: "James Frain"
slug: "james-frain"
description: "James Frain is an English actor. His best known television roles include Thomas Cromwell in the Showtime/CBC historical drama The Tudors (2007–2009), Franklin Mott in the HBO drama True Blood (2010), Warwick the Kingmaker in the BBC drama serial The White Queen (2013), John Sumner in the Sky/Canal+ crime drama The Tunnel (2013), Ferdinand Chevalier in the BBC/Space sci-fi thriller Orphan Black (2015–2017), Theo Galavan/Azrael in Fox's Gotham (2015–2016), and Sarek in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2019)."
tagline: "English stage and screen actor (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Frain_2010_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.22
  momentum:             0.07711277253689279
  historical:           23.19345066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289656/"
    handle:    "nm0289656"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Frain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Frain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "James Frain"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump