# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-pennington
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:50:28.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-pennington"
name: "Michael Pennington"
slug: "michael-pennington"
description: "Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington was an English actor, director and writer. Together with director Michael Bogdanov, he founded the English Shakespeare Company in 1986 and was its joint artistic director until 1992. He wrote ten books, directed in the UK and across the world, and was an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company."
tagline: "English actor (1943–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Pennington_2014.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-06-07"
deathDate: "2026-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.14
  momentum:             10
  historical:           12.096236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672190/"
    handle:    "nm0672190"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مايكل بينينغتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل بينينجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pennington"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pennington"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pennington"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pennington"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pennington"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pennington"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Пеннингтон, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1176702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1230989"
    title: "Michael Pennington"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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