# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timo-salminen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:31:28.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/timo-salminen"
name: "Timo Salminen"
slug: "timo-salminen"
description: "Timo Salminen is a Finnish cinematographer best known for his artistic work in Aki Kaurismäki's films. Salminen's father Ville Salminen was a famed Finnish film actor, director, writer and producer whose career began in the 1930s and lasted until the 1980s. His older step brother Ville-Veikko Salminen was a comedic actor whose career also lasted over 50 years."
tagline: "Finnish cinematographer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.209288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758742/"
    handle:    "nm0758742"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE"
    title: "Салминен, Тимо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تيمو سالمينين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "تیمو سالمینن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Salminen"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16769"
    title: "Timo Salminen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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