# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jessie-lawrence-ferguson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:47:21.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jessie-lawrence-ferguson"
name: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson"
slug: "jessie-lawrence-ferguson"
description: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson was an American actor. He was best known for playing the self-hating racist police officer in John Singleton's Academy Award-nominated film Boyz n the Hood (1991)."
tagline: "American actor (1941–2019)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zPWYlBlljsndQtvzVUZ1NwGOX67.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: "1941-06-08"
deathDate: "2019-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.94
  momentum:             6.746815454258341
  historical:           8.421461333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272480/"
    handle:    "nm0272480"
sources:
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    title: "چيسى لاورينس فيرجوسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Lawrence_Ferguson"
    title: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%8B%9C_%EB%A1%9C%EB%A0%8C%EC%8A%A4_%ED%8D%BC%EA%B1%B0%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "제시 로렌스 퍼거슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фергюсон, Джесси Лоуренс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Lawrence_Ferguson"
    title: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Lawrence_Ferguson"
    title: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9786"
    title: "Jessie Lawrence Ferguson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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