# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sahr-ngaujah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:30:16.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sahr-ngaujah"
name: "Sahr Ngaujah"
slug: "sahr-ngaujah"
description: "Michael Sahr Ngaujah is an American theater actor and director. Not long after his parents arrival from Sierra Leone via UK, Sahr was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Within five years his family relocated to Atlanta. He spent most of his early career working in experimental theater in Amsterdam. He made his breakthrough for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Fela Kuti in the 2009 Broadway musical Fela! He was nominated for his second Tony Award for his performance Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge! (2019). On screen, he is best known for his roles in ABC's Last Resort (2012) and Netflix's Luke Cage (2018)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sahr_Ngaujah_Last_Resort_NYC_2012_Copyright_Rameen_Gasery.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: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             1.544962726304579
  historical:           5.104070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628897/"
    handle:    "nm0628897"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahr_Ngaujah"
    title: "Sahr Ngaujah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahr_Ngaujah"
    title: "Sahr Ngaujah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%95%DA%BE%D8%B1_%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "سەھر نگاوجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahr_Ngaujah"
    title: "Sahr Ngaujah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%B1_%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%81"
    title: "سحر نگوجہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7399724"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74132"
    title: "Sahr Ngaujah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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