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Sources and credits
Where our information comes from, and how we credit the people who made it.
Wikidata
Facts about each actor: their name, short description, dates of birth and death, what they are known for, their awards, and links to their IMDb and TMDB pages.
- Names
- Descriptions
- Dates
- Known for
- Awards
- IMDb and TMDB links
Licence: CC0, public domain: no credit requiredwikidata.orgWikimedia Commons
Actor photos. Each one is credited under it on the actor's page, with its author, its licence and a link to its page on Commons. Photos are cropped to fit, and shown in black and white for actors who have died; they stay under their original licence.
- Portraits
Licence: Each photo's own licence, often CC BY or CC BY-SAcommons.wikimedia.orgNews publishers
We follow the news from BBC News, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Collider and Screen Rant. For each story, we show its headline, sometimes a short summary, the publisher's name and a link to read it in full on their site. We keep stories for two years. A publisher who would rather not appear can tell our bot to stay away, or write to us, and we remove their stories as soon as we see it.
- Headlines
- Short summaries
- Links
Licence: None: short extracts with linksOur botWikimedia page views
How many people read each actor's Wikipedia page the day before, for the "Most read on Wikipedia" list.
- Most read
Licence: CC0, public domain: no credit requiredWikimedia Analytics APIIMDb and TMDB
An actor's profile links to their pages on these sites, for their films and series. We don't copy their content.
- Links out
Licence: Links only