# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koen-crucke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:42:20.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koen-crucke"
name: "Koen Crucke"
slug: "koen-crucke"
description: "Koenraad Desiré Arthur (Koen) Crucke is a Belgian operatic tenor, politician, and actor of stage, television, and film. As an opera singer he has been particularly active at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp where he specializes in character roles. He has appeared in numerous musical theatre productions as well. Since 1990, he stars as Albert 'Alberto Vermicelli' Vermeersch on the long-running Flemish-Belgian children's television series Samson en Gert. In 2009, Crucke told the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, Albert is based upon the role of the gay hairdresser, he played in the movie Koko Flanel but does not reveal anything about the sexual orientation of Albert."
tagline: "Belgian singer (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koen_Crucke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-02-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.19
  momentum:             1.67912984364378
  historical:           9.061848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/koenenco/"
    handle:    "koenenco"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/managementkoencrucke"
    handle:    "managementkoencrucke"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189936/"
    handle:    "nm0189936"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4B3sC2rxmR3ZZHoR62OPBT"
    handle:    "4B3sC2rxmR3ZZHoR62OPBT"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.koencrucke.be"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Crucke"
    title: "Koen Crucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "كوين كروك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Crucke"
    title: "Koen Crucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Crucke"
    title: "Koen Crucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Crucke"
    title: "Koen Crucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1"
    title: "クーン・クルッケ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Crucke"
    title: "Koen Crucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%BA%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Крюке, Кун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/19dd5cb2-04e5-45b5-b466-a6c77cbd7975"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2500751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/550497"
    title: "Koen Crucke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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