# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-winters
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:22:46.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-winters"
name: "Michael Winters"
slug: "michael-winters"
description: "Michael Winters is an American actor of stage and television. He is best known for playing uptight town selectman Taylor Doose on the WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). He played the role for all seven seasons of the comedy-drama and reprised it for the 2016 revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life."
tagline: "American television actor, film actor and actor"
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: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.35
  momentum:             2.452039507416955
  historical:           5.764190666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935975/"
    handle:    "nm0935975"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winters_(actor)"
    title: "Michael Winters (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winters_(akteur)"
    title: "Michael Winters (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winters"
    title: "Michael Winters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winters"
    title: "Michael Winters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winters"
    title: "Michael Winters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winters"
    title: "Michael Winters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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