# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-sparks
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:33:27.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-sparks"
name: "Paul Sparks"
slug: "paul-sparks"
description: "Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his roles as gangster Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire, writer Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, mall owner John Breem in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama series Physical, attorney David Tellis in the Starz anthology drama series The Girlfriend Experience, and a recurring role in the limited series The Night Of. Sparks has also starred in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), Stealing Cars (2015), Thoroughbreds (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Sparks_(cropped).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: "1971-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.94
  momentum:             0.02770227890445328
  historical:           17.09066
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817027/"
    handle:    "nm0817027"
sources:
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    title: "保羅·斯帕克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول سپاركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پاول اسپارکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پۆڵ سپارکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sparks"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sparks"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال اسپارکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sparks"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sparks"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%EC%8A%A4%ED%8C%8C%ED%81%AC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "폴 스파크스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sparks"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sparks"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Спаркс, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال اسپارکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153714"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/167564"
    title: "Paul Sparks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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