What's in a profile
Each person is one record, built to be displayed and queried, not just stored:
- One permanent ID, plus an IMDb cross-reference on around 95% of profiles for mapping to your systems
- Name and aliases: stage names, maiden names and common misspellings all resolve to the same profile
- Multilingual name variants: language-tagged forms served per market, including inflected forms and non-Latin scripts
- Biographies: around 276,000 profiles carry a biography, with original in-house biographies written for key regional figures who lack a strong international presence
- Filmography: a dynamic list of every linked title across all roles, kept current automatically
- Awards: an awards section auto-populated from festival and awards data, with year, category and the associated title
- Images: headshots and portraits delivered through the Media & Image Hub
- Birthday and anniversary data, and continuously updated popularity rankings
Names that are right in every market
A person is one profile with one permanent ID, but their name is served correctly for each market automatically. Jackie Chan appears as "成龍" in Chinese contexts and "Jackie Chan" in Latin-script markets; a Czech female surname takes its "-ová" form; non-Latin scripts are stored and served natively. Role labels (director, writer) are localised the same way. Your platform requests a locale and gets the right form, with no name handling on your side.
Linked both ways, automatically
Profiles and titles are connected in both directions: from a person you get their full filmography, and from a title you get its full cast and crew. The links update automatically as new credits are added, and they go down to episode level, so a guest appearance in a single episode is tracked correctly. Because people, titles, awards and (where relevant) sports figures all share the same identifiers, a cast member's profile can surface their titles, their awards and their roles without you assembling any of it. Fictional characters carry their own IDs too, so the character and the actor who played them stay distinct but connected.
Rankings and discovery
The same data powers the features that help viewers find people and everything they appear in:
- Popularity rankings, global and per country, updated continuously (for example, "most popular actors in Spain")
- Search autocomplete that surfaces the right person first, so a search for "Tom" offers Tom Cruise ahead of lesser-known matches
- Jubilee flagging: automatic alerts for round-number birthdays and anniversaries, ready for editorial widgets
- Thematic and queryable lists, such as directors with the most awards in a decade, or actors who played a given role across several series
- "Popular people" widgets for home-screen tiles and rails
You take the structured data and rankings; how you present them stays your decision.
What's included
Per profile
- Profiles for actors, directors, writers, presenters, crew and other public figures, around 3.5 million in total
- Biographical data: name, nationality, date of birth and career summary
- Filmography and television credits, linked to the correct title records
- Headshots and portrait images matched to each profile
- Festival and awards history connected to the relevant people
- Multilingual name variants, one profile served correctly in every market
- IMDb cross-references on around 95% of profiles
- Popularity rankings, global and per country
- Ongoing updates as credits, roles and profiles change
Who it's for
Why it's more
It goes beyond the headline names.
Around 3.5 million profiles covering the full range of talent: supporting cast, directors, writers and crew across film and television, not only prominent or frequently searched figures.
Names are right in every market.
Each person is one profile with one permanent ID, but their name is served correctly per market automatically, including non-Latin scripts and inflected forms such as the Czech '-ová', with no name handling on your side.
It powers discovery out of the box.
Popularity rankings (global and per country) and people-based search let viewers find talent and everything they appear in, because profiles and titles are connected in both directions, down to episode level.
FAQ
How comprehensive is the coverage, does it go beyond well-known names?
Yes. The database holds around 3.5 million profiles, including supporting cast, directors, writers and crew across film and television, not only prominent or frequently searched figures.
How are people records linked to titles?
Each profile carries a permanent identifier connecting it to every title the person is credited on, in both directions and down to episode level. Links are maintained automatically as new credits are added or records updated.
Do names display correctly in every market?
Yes. Each person is one profile with localised name variants, so your platform receives the correct form per market (including non-Latin scripts and inflected forms such as the Czech '-ová'), with no name handling on your side.
Can we map your profiles to our own or external systems?
Around 95% of profiles carry an IMDb cross-reference alongside the permanent Media Press identifier, which makes it straightforward to align our people data with your existing systems.
Are headshots included, and how are they delivered?
Headshots are included and delivered through the same infrastructure as other MP Platform visual assets, via stable URLs, rendered to the crop and resolution your platform requires.
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