# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-west
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:26:55.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-west"
name: "Shane West"
slug: "shane-west"
description: "Shannon Bruce Snaith, better known as Shane West, is an American actor, singer and songwriter. He is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC medical drama ER, Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita and in the WGN fantasy adventure historical drama Salem as John Alden. West received critical acclaim for his performance portraying Darby Crash in the biopic What We Do Is Secret."
tagline: "American actor, musician and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shane_West_April_2015_(cropped).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: "1978-06-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.02
  momentum:             0.5956630376583973
  historical:           24.64311733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/shanewest_1"
    handle:    "shanewest_1"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/theshanewest/"
    handle:    "theshanewest"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922342/"
    handle:    "nm0922342"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "シェーン・ウェスト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "셰인 웨스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Shane West"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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