# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jukka-virtanen-q11867824
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:05:52.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jukka-virtanen-q11867824"
name: "Jukka Virtanen"
slug: "jukka-virtanen-q11867824"
description: "Jukka Jalmari Virtanen was a Finnish entertainer and author. He worked as both a film and television director, actor and host. He was also an accomplished songwriter. Starting originally as a newspaper columnist, Virtanen began his television career in the 1950s and his film career in the 1960s."
tagline: "Finnish writer, poet, translator, journalist, actor, director and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jukka_Virtanen_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1933-07-25"
deathDate: "2019-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.603708000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899458/"
    handle:    "nm0899458"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/773503"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چوكا ڤيرتانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen_(director)"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Virtanen"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/99945a22-1f2e-4bb4-8017-996590b9d963"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11867824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150940"
    title: "Jukka Virtanen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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