# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sessue-hayakawa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:50.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sessue-hayakawa"
name: "Sessue Hayakawa"
slug: "sessue-hayakawa"
description: "Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His \"broodingly handsome\" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1889–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sessue_Hayakawa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1889-06-10"
deathDate: "1973-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             22.04973978329494
  historical:           23.238848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  242
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0370564"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump