# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tavis-smiley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:03:12.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tavis-smiley"
name: "Tavis Smiley"
slug: "tavis-smiley"
description: "Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles."
tagline: "Talk show host, author, entrepreneur, advocate, philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tavis_Smiley.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: "1964-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.333992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/tavissmiley"
    handle:    "tavissmiley"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806983/"
    handle:    "nm0806983"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tavistalks.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ٹیویس سمائلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "تاڤيس سميلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تویس سمایلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Smiley"
    title: "Tavis Smiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Smiley"
    title: "Tavis Smiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Smiley"
    title: "Tavis Smiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تویس سمایلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Smiley"
    title: "Tavis Smiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Смайли, Тэвис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Smiley"
    title: "Tavis Smiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1230614"
    title: "Tavis Smiley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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