# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merlin-santana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:58:45.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merlin-santana"
name: "Merlin Santana"
slug: "merlin-santana"
description: "Merlin Santana was an American actor and rapper. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, Santana was best known for his roles as Marcus Dixon on Getting By, Marcus Henry in Under One Roof and Romeo Santana on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show (1996–2002)."
tagline: "American actor (1976–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Merlin_Santana.webp"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1976-03-14"
deathDate: "2002-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.49
  momentum:             0.05854948375724
  historical:           9.575172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763332/"
    handle:    "nm0763332"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "مرلن سانتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Santana"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "ميرلين سانتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "مرلین سانتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Santana"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Santana"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Santana"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "مرلین سانتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Santana"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Santana"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445375"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/154105"
    title: "Merlin Santana"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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