# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vyto-ruginis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:10:04.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vyto-ruginis"
name: "Vyto Ruginis"
slug: "vyto-ruginis"
description: "Vytautas Ignacas \"Vyto\" Ruginis is an American actor. He is best known for playing vampire Russell Winters in the television series Angel in its first episode, \"City Of\", as well as for his appearances in CSI, Murder, She Wrote, House, M.D., The X-Files, ER, Law & Order, NCIS: Los Angeles and other television programs."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/les4ZXAb2TL1Crqa8DzGwLvwns5.jpg"
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: "1956-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.760056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749490/"
    handle:    "nm0749490"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فيتو ريجاناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فيتو ريجاناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ویتو روقینز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%DB%8C%D8%AA%DB%86_%DA%95%D9%88%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "ڤیتۆ ڕوگینیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyto_Ruginis"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyto_Ruginis"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ویتو روگینز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyto_Ruginis"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyto_Ruginis"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyto_Ruginis"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyto_Ruginis"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Руджинис, Вито"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%B9%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%AF%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "وائیٹو روگنیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q534190"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61216"
    title: "Vyto Ruginis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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