# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lynch-q267356
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:16:51.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lynch-q267356"
name: "John Lynch"
slug: "john-lynch-q267356"
description: "John Lynch is an actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AACTA Awards Award for Best Actor for his performance in Angel Baby (1995). His notable screen credits include Cal, The Secret Garden, In the Name of the Father, Sliding Doors, the television series The Fall, Medici, The Head, The Banishing, and Blue Lights. Lynch is also the author of the novels Torn Water and Falling Out of Heaven."
tagline: "Irish actor and novelist (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lynch_20.08.2015.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.05
  momentum:             0.2326068734283319
  historical:           16.43778666666667
  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/nm0001487/"
    handle:    "nm0001487"
sources:
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    title: "John Lynch (oyuncu)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lynch (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lynch (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lynch_(aktorea)"
    title: "John Lynch (aktorea)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'ון לינץ' (שחקן)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lynch (attore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・リンチ (俳優)"
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    title: "존 린치 (배우)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "John Lynch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump