# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lim-kay-tong
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:57:13.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lim-kay-tong"
name: "Lim Kay Tong"
slug: "lim-kay-tong"
description: "Lim Kay Tong is a Singaporean film, television and stage actor. Notably, he played supporting roles in films including Shanghai Surprise (1986) and Brokedown Palace (1999), and series like Noble House (1988), and was the lead actor in Growing Up (1996–2001), Perth (2004), and The Old Man And His Car (2025). Lim has been called \"Singapore's finest actor\", \"Singapore's best-known actor\", and Singapore's answer to thespians Ian McKellen and Alec Guinness."
tagline: "Singaporean actor, host"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lim_Kay_Tong.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.62
  momentum:             10.38282714660668
  historical:           6.391689333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510558/"
    handle:    "nm0510558"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E7%A5%BA%E5%A0%82"
    title: "林祺堂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ليم كاى تونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Kay_Tong"
    title: "Lim Kay Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "لیم کی تانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Kay_Tong"
    title: "Lim Kay Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Kay_Tong"
    title: "Lim Kay Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18098466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93737"
    title: "Lim Kay Tong"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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