# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joonas-suotamo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:07:21.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joonas-suotamo"
name: "Joonas Suotamo"
slug: "joonas-suotamo"
description: "Joonas Viljami Suotamo is a Finnish actor and former professional basketball player. He is best known for his role as Chewbacca in the Star Wars saga, taking over the role from Peter Mayhew, first as a body double, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and later as the principal performer of Chewbacca in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He also plays Lurch in the second season of Wednesday on Netflix."
tagline: "Finnish basketball player and actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joonas_Suotamo_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1986-10-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump