# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-mcgann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:37:39.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-mcgann"
name: "Paul McGann"
slug: "paul-mcgann"
description: "Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), and subsequently starred in the black comedy film Withnail and I (1987), which became a cult classic. He became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 television film Doctor Who, reprising the role from 2001 in licensed audio dramas, as well as on screen in 2013 and 2022. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the television film series Hornblower (1998–2003)."
tagline: "English actor (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_McGann_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.84
  momentum:             0.9743165816253813
  historical:           24.31929733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001524/"
    handle:    "nm0001524"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump