# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-hurst
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:38:24.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-hurst"
name: "Michael Hurst"
slug: "michael-hurst"
description: "Michael Eric Hurst ONZM is a British-born New Zealand actor, director, and writer. He is known as a theatre actor, especially in Shakespearean roles, and more widely known for his roles in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess as Iolaus. He directed the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Ash vs Evil Dead. He plays a lead role in the 2025 Australian satirical dark comedy film Birthright."
tagline: "New Zealand actor, director and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/New_Zealand_director_Michael_Hurst.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1957-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.054016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MichaelHurstNow"
    handle:    "MichaelHurstNow"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/raunchy_twyford/"
    handle:    "raunchy_twyford"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MichaelHurstNZ"
    handle:    "MichaelHurstNZ"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403628/"
    handle:    "nm0403628"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://michaelhurst.co.nz/"
sources:
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    title: "Майкл Герст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل هيرست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل هيرست (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل هرست (بازیگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst_(acteur)"
    title: "Michael Hurst (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98"
    title: "מייקל הרסט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%ED%97%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8_(1957%EB%85%84)"
    title: "마이클 허스트 (1957년)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хёрст, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurst"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q250041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/62573"
    title: "Michael Hurst"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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