# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ironside
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:17:57.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ironside"
name: "Michael Ironside"
slug: "michael-ironside"
description: "Frederick Reginald Ironside, known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. A prominent character actor with over 270 film and television credits, he is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters. He is best known for his roles in action and science fiction films, and had his breakthrough performance in the 1981 David Cronenberg film Scanners."
tagline: "Canadian actor (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Ironside_WOH-06_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.23047733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump