# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-paul-chan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:38:36.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-paul-chan"
name: "Michael Paul Chan"
slug: "michael-paul-chan"
description: "Michael Paul Chan is an American actor. He is known for his role as Lieutenant Michael Tao on the TNT series The Closer and Major Crimes. Chan also acted in U.S. Marshals, playing an assassin."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Paul_Chan_2016.png?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: "1950-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.155574043261231
  historical:           17.79266266666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0151033"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مائیکل پال چان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Michael Paul Chan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump