# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kwame-kwei-armah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:01.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kwame-kwei-armah"
name: "Kwame Kwei-Armah"
slug: "kwame-kwei-armah"
description: "Kwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster. In 2005, Kwei-Armah became the second black Briton to have a play staged in London's West End when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre. He was the first black Briton to head a major British national theater, when he took the directorship of the Young Vic in 2018. Kwei-Armah was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama."
tagline: "Actor, playwright, singer, and broadcaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kwame_Kwei-Armah.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.3
  momentum:             4.187817258883248
  historical:           6.001913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477160/"
    handle:    "nm0477160"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/acbba013-30d8-4702-ae0e-5afd7b27c180"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kwei-Armah"
    title: "Kwame Kwei-Armah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "كوام كوى ارماه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kwei-Armah"
    title: "Kwame Kwei-Armah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kwei-Armah"
    title: "Kwame Kwei-Armah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kwei-Armah"
    title: "Kwame Kwei-Armah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6450083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221761"
    title: "Kwame Kwei-Armah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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