# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-benard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:32:08.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-benard"
name: "Maurice Benard"
slug: "maurice-benard"
description: "Maurice Benard is an American actor. He played Nico Kelly in the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children from 1987 to 1990 and in 1991 portrayed Desi Arnaz in the biographical television film Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter. In 1993, Benard began starring as Sonny Corinthos in the ABC soap opera General Hospital. For his role in General Hospital, Benard received three Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2005_Voice_Awards_Maurice_Benard_and_Charles_Curie_(18426533841)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.52059066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MauriceBenard"
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    handle:    "nm0001939"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mauricebenard.tv/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump