# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-chiklis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:59:18.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-chiklis"
name: "Michael Chiklis"
slug: "michael-chiklis"
description: "Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor, television producer, and director. He is known for his roles as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield (2002–2008), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2002 and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2003, and as superhero Ben Grimm / the Thing in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mchikie_headshot.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: "1963-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.73627866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "martincrewes"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004821/"
    handle:    "nm0004821"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelchiklis.com/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Chiklis"
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    title: "Michael Chiklis"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump