# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:00:28.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-thornton"
name: "James Thornton"
slug: "james-thornton"
description: "James Thornton is an English actor. He portrayed John Barton in the British soap opera Emmerdale from 2009 to 2012; he previously appeared in the show in 1995."
tagline: "British actor"
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: "1975-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.29
  momentum:             3.887139743279244
  historical:           7.74358
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861538/"
    handle:    "nm0861538"
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F_(%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%9F)"
    title: "ג'יימס תורנטון (שחקן)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thornton_(akteur)"
    title: "James Thornton (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "جيمس ثورنتون (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "جيمس ثورنتون (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thornton_(actor)"
    title: "James Thornton (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thornton"
    title: "James Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جیمز ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5925890"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1567595"
    title: "James Thornton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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