# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:38:02.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-knight"
name: "Wayne Knight"
slug: "wayne-knight"
description: "Wayne Elliot Knight is an American actor. In television, he played recurring roles such as Newman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001). Knight also voiced Igor on Toonsylvania (1998–1999), Dojo Kanojo Cho in Xiaolin Showdown (2003–2006), Mr. Blik on Catscratch (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wayne_Knight_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2025.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1955-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.28810675264195
  historical:           26.33823333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "iwayneknight"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001431/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump