# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-cariou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:53.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/len-cariou"
name: "Len Cariou"
slug: "len-cariou"
description: "Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor, singer, and theatre director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) alongside Angela Lansbury for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Applause (1970) and the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music (1973)."
tagline: "Canadian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LenCariouEmmysSept09.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-09-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6408989343416982
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137230/"
    handle:    "nm0137230"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump