# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reverend-billy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:22:39.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reverend-billy"
name: "Reverend Billy"
slug: "reverend-billy"
description: "Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping is a radical performance community based in New York City. The Stop Shopping Choir is accompanied by a comic preacher, Reverend Billy, portrayed by performer William Talen. The philosophy of the Church of Stop Shopping surrounds the imminent \"Shopocalypse\", which assumes the end of humanity will come about through manic consumerism."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Day_40_Occupy_Wall_Street_October_25_2011_Shankbone_19.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: "1950-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.831212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1142849/"
    handle:    "nm1142849"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.revbilly.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Reverend Billy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B0%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ريڤيريند بيلى اند ذا تشورتش اوف ليف افتير شوپينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%B5%DB%8C_(%D8%A6%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A6%DB%95%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C)"
    title: "بیڵی (ئەکتەری ئەمریکی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Billy"
    title: "Reverend Billy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Billy_and_the_Church_of_Stop_Shopping"
    title: "Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Billy_and_the_Church_of_Stop_Shopping"
    title: "Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ビル・タレン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464486"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87380"
    title: "Reverend Billy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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