# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johan-leysen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:39:24.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johan-leysen"
name: "Johan Leysen"
slug: "johan-leysen"
description: "Johan Leysen was a Belgian actor. He appeared in more than 130 films and television shows from 1977. He starred in the film De grens, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. In 1998, he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor for his role in the movie Felice...Felice.... In the 2010 film The American, he appeared as Pavel, mysterious handler of Jack, the assassin character played by George Clooney."
tagline: "Belgian actor (1950–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johan_Leysen_in_Gluckauf_(2015).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-02-19"
deathDate: "2023-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.512788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508085/"
    handle:    "nm0508085"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump