# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yemi-ajibade
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:05:31.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yemi-ajibade"
name: "Yemi Ajibade"
slug: "yemi-ajibade"
description: "Yemi Ajibade, usually credited as Yemi Goodman Ajibade or Ade-Yemi Ajibade, was a Nigerian playwright, actor and director who, after settling in England in the 1950s, made significant contributions to the British theatre and the canon of Black drama. As an actor he is well-known for Dirty Pretty Things (2002), The Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) and Danger Man (1964). In a career that spanned half a century, he directed and wrote several successful plays, as well as acting in a wide range of drama for television, stage, radio and film."
tagline: "Nigerian playwright and actor (1929-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1929-07-28"
deathDate: "2013-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.407884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014994/"
    handle:    "nm0014994"
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    title: "Yemi Ajibade"
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    title: "ييمي اجابادي"
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    title: "ييمى اجابادى"
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    title: "Yemi Ajibade"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemi_Ajibade"
    title: "Yemi Ajibade"
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  - url: "https://igl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemi_Ajibade"
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    title: "Yemi Ajibade"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump