# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/spalding-gray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:58:41.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/spalding-gray"
name: "Spalding Gray"
slug: "spalding-gray"
description: "Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor and writer. He is best known for driving autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several films, working with different directors."
tagline: "Actor, dramatist, playwright, screenwriter (1941–2004)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qmEBNepXpBuDnW3gdkY2sHeoGkq.jpg"
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: "1941-06-05"
deathDate: "2004-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.55903333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336960/"
    handle:    "nm0336960"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سپاڵدینگ گرای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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    title: "Spalding Gray"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump