# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-mercurio
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:53:55.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-mercurio"
name: "Paul Mercurio"
slug: "paul-mercurio"
description: "Paul Joseph Mercurio is an Australian actor, choreographer, dancer, TV presenter and politician. Mercurio is best known for his lead role in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom and his role as a judge on TV series Dancing with the Stars."
tagline: "Australian politician, actor and dancer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Mercurio_at_Peninsula_Aero_Club_Toy_Run_2025_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.76
  momentum:             19.85896155766351
  historical:           10.02858
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580527/"
    handle:    "nm0580527"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulmercurio.com"
sources:
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    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "پائول مرکوریو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%EB%A9%94%EB%A5%B4%EC%BF%A0%EB%A6%AC%EC%98%A4"
    title: "폴 메르쿠리오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mercurio"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24589"
    title: "Paul Mercurio"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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