# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lavelle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:13:58.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lavelle"
name: "John Lavelle"
slug: "john-lavelle"
description: "John Lavelle is an American stage, film, television actor, and playwright who is perhaps best known for his role as Benjamin Braddock in John Reid's 2002 Broadway adaptation of The Graduate, where he starred opposite Lorraine Bracco, and for his portrayal of Roy Reed in the film Selma. He is the author of several plays including Sinner's Laundry and Inhalation. He won a Drama Desk Award for his work in The Royale at the Lincoln Center Theatre."
tagline: "Actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8tj2wsomRGjSSbdatVIO4Y7PkbK.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: "1981-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.3
  momentum:             10.91931074177998
  historical:           6.220124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1605083/"
    handle:    "nm1605083"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fdabb36c-f1de-4b5d-b90a-86ecb22f5042"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavelle_(akteur)"
    title: "John Lavelle (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavelle"
    title: "John Lavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavelle"
    title: "John Lavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavelle_(actor)"
    title: "John Lavelle (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavelle"
    title: "John Lavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "جان لیویل (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6244125"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1340677"
    title: "John Lavelle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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