# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-burstyn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:26:44.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-burstyn"
name: "Mike Burstyn"
slug: "mike-burstyn"
description: "Michael Burstein is an Israeli-American actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. His first cousin was Borsch Belt comedian, Jay Lester.\nMike began performing on stage at Yiddish theaters from childhood, in musicals and melodramas produced by his father, Pesach Burstein, especially as part of the Four Bursteins. in standard Pesach Burstein productions like A Khasene in Shtetl. He headed out on his own after reaching adulthood, in a bid to reach audiences bigger than the Yiddish stage."
tagline: "Israeli-American film, stage, and television actor (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Burstyn%2C_ca._April_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.24
  momentum:             0.2944444444444445
  historical:           8.200041333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 174
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mikeburstyn/"
    handle:    "mikeburstyn"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123391/"
    handle:    "nm0123391"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/21nw24JxCEvWlbytjuG363"
    handle:    "21nw24JxCEvWlbytjuG363"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mikeburstyn.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVfK-F402_pvJeg6zLLSXkA"
    handle:    "@mikeburstynfriends4616"
    followers: 174
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/604418"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مايك بيرستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Burstyn"
    title: "Mike Burstyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Burstyn"
    title: "Mike Burstyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "מייק בורשטיין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC_%EB%B2%84%EC%8A%A4%ED%8B%B4"
    title: "마이크 버스틴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "مائیک برسٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "מייק בורשטיין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/accdbe61-a877-4332-b4fb-f0832de5e3f4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2909642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/171627"
    title: "Mike Burstyn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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