# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-sharkey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:35:25.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-sharkey"
name: "Ray Sharkey"
slug: "ray-sharkey"
description: "Raymond Sharkey Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy."
tagline: "American stage, film and television actor (1952–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Ray_sharkey.jpg"
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: "1952-11-14"
deathDate: "1993-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.84
  momentum:             0.1483638380476983
  historical:           18.863484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788829/"
    handle:    "nm0788829"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рэй Шаркі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ری شارکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ריי שארקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "レイ・シャーキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "레이 샤키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шарки, Рэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101752"
    title: "Ray Sharkey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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