# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-riley
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:54:04.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-riley"
name: "Sam Riley"
slug: "sam-riley"
description: "Samuel Peter W. Riley is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his performance in the 2007 biographical film Control about the life of Ian Curtis, as protagonist Sal Paradise in the 2012 adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road, and as Diaval in the 2014 film Maleficent. Riley received renown for his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2016 film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
tagline: "English actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Riley_Das_finstere_Tal_Wien_2014_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.68
  momentum:             1.025910826625231
  historical:           25.732428
  currentAttention:     2.16565800403465
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727165/"
    handle:    "nm0727165"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سام رايلاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سام رايلاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سم رایلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سام ڕایلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سم رایلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "サム・ライリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "샘 라일리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sems Railijs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley_(acteur)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Sam Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Райли, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Riley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0691ea99-6405-42be-9899-eb846fc28de5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q520001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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