# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-gao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:03:28.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-gao"
name: "William Gao"
slug: "william-gao"
description: "William Gao is an English actor and musician. He is known for his debut role as Tao Xu in the Netflix series Heartstopper (2022–present), for which he was nominated for a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance."
tagline: "British actor, singer and model"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Gao_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "2003-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.73
  momentum:             13.19231791696722
  historical:           13.28005466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/will.gao_/"
    handle:    "will.gao_"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@hardynugget"
    handle:    "hardynugget"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12522256/"
    handle:    "nm12522256"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%92%D7%90%D7%95"
    title: "ויליאם גאו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Гао, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BE"
    title: "Вільям Гао"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gao"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106629330"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3350493"
    title: "William Gao"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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