# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-d-rice
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:59.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-d-rice"
name: "Thomas D. Rice"
slug: "thomas-d-rice"
description: "Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the \"father of American minstrelsy\". His act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience."
tagline: "American performer, playwright and comedian (1808-1860)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TD_Rice.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1808-05-20"
deathDate: "1860-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             1.114285714285714
  historical:           9.866292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "托馬斯·D·賴斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ثوماس دى. ريسى"
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    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"
    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dartmouth_Rice"
    title: "Thomas Dartmouth Rice"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"
    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"
    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"
    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"
    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"
    title: "Thomas D. Rice"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B3"
    title: "تھامس ڈی رائس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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