# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-boatman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:22.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-boatman"
name: "Michael Boatman"
slug: "michael-boatman"
description: "Michael Patrick Boatman is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as New York City mayoral aide Carter Heywood in the ABC sitcom Spin City, as U.S. Army Specialist Samuel Beckett in the ABC drama series China Beach, as 101st Airborne soldier Motown in the Vietnam War movie Hamburger Hill, and as sports agent Stanley Babson in the HBO sitcom Arli$$. He also starred in The Good Fight, the Paramount+ spin-off of The Good Wife."
tagline: "Actor, writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Boatman_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1871101871101871
  historical:           13.83796533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MichaelBoatman_"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090225/"
    handle:    "nm0090225"
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    title: "Michael Boatman"
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    title: "Michael Boatman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump