# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sean-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:18:02.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sean-hughes"
name: "Sean Hughes"
slug: "sean-hughes"
description: "Sean Hughes was a British-born Irish comedian, writer and actor. He starred in his own Channel 4 television show Sean's Show and was one of the regular team captains on the BBC Two musical panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks."
tagline: "Stand-up comedian, writer and actor (1965–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sean_Hughes_(4107622922).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-11-10"
deathDate: "2017-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             1.171183257311511
  historical:           8.033105333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400923/"
    handle:    "nm0400923"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.seanhughes.co.uk/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "شون هيوز (كوميديان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "شان هییوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hughes"
    title: "Sean Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hughes_(comedian)"
    title: "Sean Hughes (comedian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hughes"
    title: "Sean Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hughes"
    title: "Sean Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hughes"
    title: "Sean Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a063147-3b91-4f9f-b92e-1ace34b11c12"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7441091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109932"
    title: "Sean Hughes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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