# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-vee
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:18:59.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-vee"
name: "Jimmy Vee"
slug: "jimmy-vee"
description: "James Vee is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing a number of Doctor Who monsters and aliens including Bannakaffalatta in the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, as well as the Graske in the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. He is also well known as the actor for R2-D2 in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, replacing the late Kenny Baker, who died in August 2016."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Vee_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-02-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.587188612099644
  historical:           12.57081466666667
  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/nm1835544/"
    handle:    "nm1835544"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Vee"
    title: "Jimmy Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Vee"
    title: "Jimmy Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Vee"
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  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%AB_%D5%8E%D5%AB"
    title: "Ջիմի Վի"
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    title: "Jimmy Vee"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump