# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-blakemore
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:35:23.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-blakemore"
name: "Michael Blakemore"
slug: "michael-blakemore"
description: "Michael Howell Blakemore AO OBE was an Australian actor, writer and theatre director who also made some films. A former Associate Director of the National Theatre, in 2000 he became the only individual to win Tony Awards for Best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate."
tagline: "Australian actor (1928–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Michael_Blakemore.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-06-18"
deathDate: "2023-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.72
  momentum:             1.25
  historical:           5.748237333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086820/"
    handle:    "nm0086820"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Blakemore"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "مايكل بلاكيمور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blakemore"
    title: "Michael Blakemore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blakemore"
    title: "Michael Blakemore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blakemore"
    title: "Michael Blakemore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blakemore"
    title: "Michael Blakemore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15463660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1080036"
    title: "Michael Blakemore"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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