# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-hooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:13:05.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-hooks"
name: "Robert Hooks"
slug: "robert-hooks"
description: "Robert Hooks is an American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, he founded The Negro Ensemble Company. The Negro Ensemble Company is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop."
tagline: "Actor, producer and activist (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Hooks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.41415866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0393666"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump