# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-dawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:44.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-dawson"
name: "Paul Dawson"
slug: "paul-dawson"
description: "Paul Dawson is an American actor. He is best known for his performance as suicidal former prostitute James in the 2006 comedy-drama film Shortbus, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulDawson.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: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.67
  momentum:             11.3862771472797
  historical:           10.35220266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PaulDawson_"
    handle:    "PaulDawson_"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206225/"
    handle:    "nm0206225"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "پال ڈاسن (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باول داوسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال داوسون (هنرپیشه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dawson_(actor)"
    title: "Paul Dawson (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%87)"
    title: "پال داوسون (هنرپیشه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dawson"
    title: "Paul Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dawson_(aktorulo)"
    title: "Paul Dawson (aktorulo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dawson"
    title: "Paul Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%EB%8F%84%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "폴 도슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dawson"
    title: "Paul Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dawson"
    title: "Paul Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1633135"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19764"
    title: "Paul Dawson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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