# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-theroux
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:21.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-theroux"
name: "Marcel Theroux"
slug: "marcel-theroux"
description: "Marcel Raymond Theroux is an English-American novelist and broadcaster. He has written novels such as The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase (2001), A Blow to the Heart (2006), Far North (2009), and Strange Bodies (2013). He won the Somerset Maugham Award for The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Strange Bodies. He has also hosted documentaries on various topics and worked for TV news stations in New York City and Boston."
tagline: "British-American novelist and broadcaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcel_Theroux_at_the_Sewell-Hohler_Syndicate_(2017).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.730408000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2039102/"
    handle:    "nm2039102"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.marceltheroux.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Marcel Theroux"
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    title: "مارسيل ثيروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcel Theroux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcel Theroux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Theroux"
    title: "Marcel Theroux"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%9C_%D7%AA'%D7%A8%D7%95"
    title: "מרסל ת'רו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Marcel Theroux"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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