# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-winfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:54:51.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-winfield"
name: "Paul Winfield"
slug: "paul-winfield"
description: "Paul Edward Winfield was an American actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film Sounder (1972), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Winfield portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1978 television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Winfield was also known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Terminator, L.A. Law,, the Magic Mirror in The Charmings, and Julian c. Barlow in the final season of 227. Winfield received four Emmy nominations overall, winning in 1995 for his 1994 guest role in Picket Fences."
tagline: "Actor (1939–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Winfield_Mark_Slade_High_Chaparral_1969_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-05-22"
deathDate: "2004-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4317177259564091
  historical:           23.91890533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump