# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:00.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-welch"
name: "Michael Welch"
slug: "michael-welch"
description: "Michael Welch is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Luke Girardi on the television series Joan of Arcadia and for the role of Mike Newton in the films Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Welch_2015.jpg?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: "1987-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.95
  momentum:             0.1739130434782609
  historical:           22.54683466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/michaelwelchact"
    handle:    "michaelwelchact"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/michaelwelchact/"
    handle:    "michaelwelchact"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919616/"
    handle:    "nm0919616"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelwelchonline.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مايكل وولش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل وولش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکڵ وێڵچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Welch (herec)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch_(actor)"
    title: "Michael Welch (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل ولچ (هنرپیشه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch_(acteur)"
    title: "Michael Welch (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch_(actor)"
    title: "Michael Welch (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B5%D6%84%D5%AC_%D5%88%D6%82%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%B7"
    title: "Մայքլ Ուելշ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%EC%9B%B0%EC%B9%98"
    title: "마이클 웰치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%88%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Уэлш, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%86_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "مائیکل ویلچ (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Welch_(di%E1%BB%85n_vi%C3%AAn)"
    title: "Michael Welch (diễn viên)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236463"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56676"
    title: "Michael Welch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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