# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-markle
# Generated: 2026-09-01T14:08:40.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-markle"
name: "Thomas Markle"
slug: "thomas-markle"
description: "Thomas Wayne Markle is an American retired television lighting director and director of photography. He received a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award for work on the television program Made in Chicago in 1975 and was a co-recipient of two Daytime Emmy Awards for work on the television soap opera General Hospital in 1982 and 2011. His youngest child is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex."
tagline: "American lighting director and father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex"
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: "1944-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.154913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548537/"
    handle:    "nm0548537"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Markle"
    title: "Thomas Markle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Markle"
    title: "Thomas Markle"
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    title: "توماس ماركل"
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    title: "توماس ماركل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Markle"
    title: "Thomas Markle"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Markle"
    title: "Thomas Markle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43918214"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2041170"
    title: "Thomas Markle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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