# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jermaine-hopkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:35:39.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jermaine-hopkins"
name: "Jermaine Hopkins"
slug: "jermaine-hopkins"
description: "Jermaine R. “Huggy” Hopkins is an American television and film actor. Hopkins is best known for his roles as Dupree on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. from 1996 to 1998, and as Thomas Sams in the 1989 film, Lean on Me, Eric \"Steel\" Thurman in the 1992 crime drama thriller Juice, Benny King in the 1996 film Phat Beach and Kilo in the 1997 comedy film Def Jam's How to Be a Player."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ddbniqxl8aezdKW5FTUf8wAWKQG.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.88
  momentum:             3.704693998811647
  historical:           6.099401333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394191/"
    handle:    "nm0394191"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%BE%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جرمین ہاپکنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيرمين هوبكنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيرمين هوبكنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8E%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%BE%DB%86%D9%BE%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جێرماین ھۆپکینز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine_Hopkins"
    title: "Jermaine Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine_Hopkins"
    title: "Jermaine Hopkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1687681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79539"
    title: "Jermaine Hopkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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