# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carroll-lynch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:25:23.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carroll-lynch"
name: "John Carroll Lynch"
slug: "john-carroll-lynch"
description: "John Carroll Lynch is an American character actor and film director. He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in Fargo (1996). He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show (1997–2004) as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on four seasons of American Horror Story (2014–2019), most notably as breakout character Twisty the Clown. His films include Face/Off (1997), Mercury Rising (1998) Gothika (2003), Zodiac (2007), Gran Torino (2008), Shutter Island (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Ted 2 (2015), The Invitation (2015), The Founder (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). He made his directorial debut with the 2017 film Lucky."
tagline: "American character actor and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Carroll_Lynch_Blue_Moon-10_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1963-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump