# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-absolom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:23:28.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-absolom"
name: "Joe Absolom"
slug: "joe-absolom"
description: "Joe Absolom is an English actor best known for his roles as Matthew Rose in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1997–2000), Al Large in the ITV comedy drama Doc Martin (2004–2022) and Ray Walters in Emmerdale (2025–2026)."
tagline: "Actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/hoBK0DpfBsUh0HP57dzF4QW81d2.jpg"
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: "1978-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.61
  momentum:             0.5113467446239224
  historical:           8.248518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009424/"
    handle:    "nm0009424"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Absolom"
    title: "Joe Absolom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Absolom"
    title: "Joe Absolom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جو ابسولوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جو ابسولوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Absolom"
    title: "Joe Absolom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Absolom"
    title: "Joe Absolom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جو ابسولوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95_%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "ג'ו אבסולום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97430"
    title: "Joe Absolom"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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