# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-dovolani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:02.508Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-dovolani"
name: "Tony Dovolani"
slug: "tony-dovolani"
description: "Driton Dovolani, commonly known as Tony Dovolani, is an Albanian-American professional ballroom dancer, instructor and judge. He is known for his involvement in the American version of Dancing with the Stars on ABC. Dovolani also portrayed Slick Willy in the hit film Shall We Dance? and spent time coaching actress Jennifer Lopez."
tagline: "Ballroom dancer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TonyDovolaniApr09.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             5.232558139534884
  historical:           5.525850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1815588/"
    handle:    "nm1815588"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dovolani.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dovolani"
    title: "Tony Dovolani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dovolani"
    title: "Tony Dovolani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dovolani"
    title: "Tony Dovolani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dovolani"
    title: "Tony Dovolani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dovolani"
    title: "Tony Dovolani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7822251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2003668"
    title: "Driton 'Tony' Dovolani"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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