GET
/
person
/
{person_id}
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/%7B{person_id}%7D \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
{
  "adult": false,
  "also_known_as": [
    "Thomas Jeffrey Hanks",
    "توم هانكس",
    "トム・ハンクス",
    "톰 행크스",
    "ทอม แฮงส์",
    "汤姆·汉克斯",
    "Том Хенкс",
    "Τομ Χανκς",
    "टॉम हैंक्स",
    "ടോം ഹാങ്ക്സ്",
    "湯姆·漢克",
    "托马斯·杰弗里·汉克斯",
    "Thomas Hanks",
    "טום הנקס",
    "湯姆·漢克斯"
  ],
  "biography": "Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.\n\nHanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter.\n\nHanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.",
  "birthday": "1956-07-09",
  "deathday": null,
  "gender": 2,
  "homepage": null,
  "id": 31,
  "imdb_id": "nm0000158",
  "known_for_department": "Acting",
  "name": "Tom Hanks",
  "place_of_birth": "Concord, California, USA",
  "popularity": 85.303,
  "profile_path": "/eKF1sGJRrZJbfBG1KirPt1cfNd3.jpg"
}

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Path Parameters

​
person_id
string
required

Query Parameters

​
append_to_response
string

comma separated list of endpoints within this namespace, 20 items max

Example:

"string"

​
language
string

Defaults to en-US

Example:

"string"

Response

200 - application/json

Fetch details

The response is of type object.