# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-o-brien
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:21.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-o-brien"
name: "Richard O'Brien"
slug: "richard-o-brien"
description: "Richard O'Brien is a British and New Zealand actor, writer and singer. He wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which has remained in continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay along with director Jim Sharman for the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and appeared on-screen as Riff Raff. O'Brien co-wrote the musical film Shock Treatment (1981) and appeared on-screen as Dr. Cosmo McKinley."
tagline: "English actor, writer, musician, and television presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_O_Brien_by_Stuart_Mentiply.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.30338
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  96
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump