# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-barnett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:59.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-barnett"
name: "Samuel Barnett"
slug: "samuel-barnett"
description: "Samuel Barnett is an English actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio and achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. His television performances include roles in the BBC comedy Twenty Twelve and in the Showtime drama Penny Dreadful. He played the lead role of Dirk Gently in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the 2016 BBC America adaptation of the book series by Douglas Adams."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Barnett_by_Gage_Skidmore.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: "1980-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.33444533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mrSamuelBarnett"
    handle:    "mrSamuelBarnett"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mrsamuelbarnett/"
    handle:    "mrsamuelbarnett"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/mrSamBarnett"
    handle:    "mrSamBarnett"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154650/"
    handle:    "nm1154650"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "صامويل بارنيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Barnett (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(actor)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Barnett (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "サミュエル・バーネット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett"
    title: "Samuel Barnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(aktor)"
    title: "Samuel Barnett (aktor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett"
    title: "Samuel Barnett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Барнетт, Сэмюэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett"
    title: "Samuel Barnett"
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    title: "Семюел Барнетт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q736794"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55471"
    title: "Samuel Barnett"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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