# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:32:02.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-baker"
name: "Rick Baker"
slug: "rick-baker"
description: "Richard Alan Baker is an American actor and retired special make-up effects creator. He is mostly known for his creature designs and effects. Baker has won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, beginning with his win in the first year of the category's existence, for the 1981 horror comedy An American Werewolf in London."
tagline: "American special makeup effects artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Baker_at_Saturn_Awards_(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: "1950-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "therickbaker"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/therickbaker/"
    handle:    "therickbaker"
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    title: "里克·贝克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump