# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ross-malinger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:43:23.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ross-malinger"
name: "Ross Malinger"
slug: "ross-malinger"
description: "Ross Aaron Malinger is an American former actor and automobile salesperson. He is best known for his roles as Jonah Baldwin in the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks, and as Bobby Jameson in the 1997 Disney comedy film Toothless, starring Kirstie Alley. He and Alley co-starred in the 1995 television film Peter and the Wolf, where Malinger played Peter. He played Adam Lippman, the Bar Mitzvah boy who liked Elaine's \"Shiksa appeal\", in the Seinfeld episode \"The Serenity Now\". He was also the original voice of T.J. Detweiler on the Disney animated TV series Recess."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3kfl6Mq4V4jWT4N7zmznFEsQJ90.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: "1984-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.51
  momentum:             1.86241610738255
  historical:           12.180484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539678/"
    handle:    "nm0539678"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ross Malinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Malinger"
    title: "Ross Malinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Malinger"
    title: "Ross Malinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ross Malinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Malinger"
    title: "Ross Malinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A7%AC%EB%A7%81%EA%B1%B0"
    title: "로스 맬링거"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Malinger"
    title: "Ross Malinger"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Malinger"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راس ملنگر"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump