# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:16.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-robinson"
name: "Leon Robinson"
slug: "leon-robinson"
description: "Leon Preston Robinson, usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer, who began professional acting as a film actor in the early 1980s. He is best known for his roles as J.T. Matthews in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, Derice Bannock in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, Shep in the 1994 basketball drama film Above the Rim, singer David Ruffin in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations, and Little Richard in the 2000 film Little Richard."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeonRobinsonOct10.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.48
  momentum:             7.489484005564152
  historical:           15.43004666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502442/"
    handle:    "nm0502442"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://justleon.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ليون روبنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليون روبنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "لیون رابینسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%DB%86%D9%86_%DA%95%DB%86%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لیۆن ڕۆبنسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "Leon Robinson (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "لیون رابینسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3_(%E4%BF%B3%E5%84%AA)"
    title: "レオン (俳優)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Robinson"
    title: "Leon Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لیون رابنسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1818918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12974"
    title: "Leon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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