# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryan-o-connell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:46.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryan-o-connell"
name: "Ryan O'Connell"
slug: "ryan-o-connell"
description: "Ryan O'Connell is an American writer, actor, director, comedian, LGBTQ activist, and disability advocate. He is known for his 2015 memoir, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, about his life as a gay man with cerebral palsy, which he adapted into television series Special for Netflix."
tagline: "American writer, LGBTQ and disibility activist"
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: "1986-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.93
  momentum:             5.439662001584368
  historical:           6.743825333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ryanoconn"
    handle:    "ryanoconn"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ryanoconn/"
    handle:    "ryanoconn"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5067086/"
    handle:    "nm5067086"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O'Connell"
    title: "Ryan O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O%E2%80%99Connell"
    title: "Ryan O’Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O'Connell"
    title: "Ryan O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O'Connell"
    title: "Ryan O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%95'%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%9C"
    title: "ריאן או'קונל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_O'Connell"
    title: "Ryan O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65056294"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2131993"
    title: "Ryan O'Connell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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