# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-frakes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:46:24.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-frakes"
name: "Jonathan Frakes"
slug: "jonathan-frakes"
description: "Jonathan Scott Frakes is an American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. He has also hosted the anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, voiced David Xanatos in the Disney television series Gargoyles, and narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He is the credited author of the novel The Abductors: Conspiracy, which was ghostwritten by Dean Wesley Smith."
tagline: "American actor and director (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jonathan_Frakes_at_Galaxy_Con_Columbus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump