# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-merchant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:16:01.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-merchant"
name: "Stephen Merchant"
slug: "stephen-merchant"
description: "Stephen James Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001–2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005–2007) and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. He also provided the voice of the robotic Wheatley in the video games Portal 2 (2011) and Lego Dimensions (2015). Merchant co-developed the Sky One travel documentary series An Idiot Abroad (2010–2012) and co-created Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019)."
tagline: "English actor, director, and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Merchant.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: "1974-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.12449866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "StephenMerchant"
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    handle:    "johanpieters6"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0580351"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stephenmerchant.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "ستيفن ميرشانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Merchant"
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    title: "Սթիվեն Մերչանթ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Merchant"
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    title: "Stephen Merchant"
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    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мерчант, Стивен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Merchant"
    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Merchant"
    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стівен Мерчант"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Merchant"
    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23814"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39189"
    title: "Stephen Merchant"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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