# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-chernus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:07.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-chernus"
name: "Michael Chernus"
slug: "michael-chernus"
description: "Michael Louis Chernus is an American actor who has acted on film, television, and the stage. He is best known for his role as Cal Chapman on the Netflix original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), and has had roles in the superhero film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and the Apple TV+ series Severance (2022–present). Chernus starred in the 2023 thriller miniseries Dead Ringers, which won a Peabody Award."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Chernus_at_the_2024_Toronto_Film_Festival_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MichaelChernus"
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    handle:    "mchernus"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump