# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-rooker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:28.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-rooker"
name: "Michael Rooker"
slug: "michael-rooker"
description: "Michael Rooker is an American actor. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date including Slither (2006), Super (2010) and The Suicide Squad (2021), along with the TV series Peacemaker."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Rooker_2013_02_(cropped).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: "1955-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.380868846554452
  historical:           25.32883066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Michael_Rooker"
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    handle:    "michael_rooker"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelrookeronline.com"
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    title: "Michael Rooker"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump