# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kee-thuan-chye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:08:25.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kee-thuan-chye"
name: "Kee Thuan Chye"
slug: "kee-thuan-chye"
description: "Kee Thuan Chye is a Malaysian actor, dramatist, poet and journalist. Acting in theatre, films, and on television for more than 40 years, he continues to do so. A noted civil rights activist, he would express in his plays whatever he could not express through the newspapers under Malaysia's repressive Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA). For speaking out without fear or favour, Kee was among the first recipients of The Annexe Heroes Freedom of Expression Awards when it was launched in 2008."
tagline: "Actor, dramatist, poet, journalist, civil rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kee_Thuan_Chye.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.02
  momentum:             0.0398406374501992
  historical:           6.809072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161581/"
    handle:    "nm0161581"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%80%E5%82%B3%E8%B2%A1"
    title: "紀傳財"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "كى ثوان تشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Thuan_Chye"
    title: "Kee Thuan Chye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Thuan_Chye"
    title: "Kee Thuan Chye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Thuan_Chye"
    title: "Kee Thuan Chye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Thuan_Chye"
    title: "Kee Thuan Chye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Thuan_Chye"
    title: "Kee Thuan Chye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3233773"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1332617"
    title: "Kee Thuan Chye"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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