Factsheet
Contains biographical facts about a person.
Elements
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| Details | String | Life and career information about the person in less than 8000 characters. |
| LanguageId | String | Database ID for the language the factsheet is written in. The language is determined by the language specified in the request locale parameter. If no factsheets are available in that language for the celebrity, they are returned in English. |
| Type | String | Type of factsheet in less than 64 characters. |
XML Response Example
<Factsheet LanguageId="1">
<Type>Biography</Type>
<Details><![CDATA[The son of a former Heisman Trophy winner and a 1940s film actress, Mark Harmon took naturally to the gridiron and to acting, although what he really wanted to be as a youth was a doctor. After two years quarterbacking a junior-college team in Los Angeles, Harmon transferred to UCLA and successfully led the Bruins during the 1972 and '73 seasons, with an intent to attend medical school after graduation. But that all changed when Harmon had the good fortune to meet TV legend Ozzie Nelson (Harmon's sister Kristin married his son, singing star Rick Nelson) who offered him his first acting gig, a walk-on role on the syndicated <I>Ozzie's Girls</I> in 1973. Acting was now Harmon's passion. Other bit TV parts followed, but it was his Emmy-nominated turn as a physically impaired veteran in the TV movie <I>Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years</I> that made Hollywood take notice. He went on to tackle a string of guest spots, miniseries and short-lived series, including the primetime soap <I>Flamingo Road</I>, before becoming a sex symbol and the doctor he'd always wanted to be on the medical drama <I>St. Elsewhere</I>. Harmon exited the series in 1986 after his character contracted AIDS, a controversial subject at the time, and found success in features (<I>The Presidio</I>, <I>Stealing Home</I>), in commercials (an ad for Coors beer) and in a wide array of TV movies, most notably as serial killer Ted Bundy in <I>The Deliberate Stranger</I> and as the title character in the TV biopic <I>Dillinger</I>. Harmon's personal life was also clicking; he married <I>Mork & Mindy</I> star Pam Dawber in 1987 (they have two sons), and over the next decade he went on to headline the series <I>Reasonable Doubts</I> and <I>Chicago Hope</I>. But Harmon's biggest role was still to come. After an Emmy-nominated appearance on <I>The West Wing</I>, Harmon was approached to play Special Agent Jethro Gibbs on the military drama <I>JAG</I>. Soon after, Gibbs was the lead character on the <I>JAG</I> smash spin-off <I>NCIS</I>. The show's success has allowed the family-oriented Harmon, who once worked as a carpenter to make ends meet, to drastically reduce his appearances in other projects and only take occasional roles (<I>Chasing Liberty</I>, <I>Weather Girl</I>) that interest him.]]></Details>
</Factsheet>
JSON Response Example
- JSON responses are available from our REST TV Listings service.
{
"LanguageId":"1",
"Type":"Factsheet",
"Details":"Made his first TV appearance at age 9 as an extra in the TV-movie The Execution of Private Slovik<\/I> (1974); was an extra in 1979's Apocalypse Now<\/I> (both films starred his father). \n
Admitted under oath during the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss that he had spent more than $50,000 for the services of 27 of her employees over a 15-month period. \n
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. \n
Formed the production company Sheen-Michaels Entertainment with Bret Michaels (lead singer of Poison) in 1997. \n
Landed in the hospital after a drug overdose in May 1998 and was sentenced to a detox clinic. \n
Published a book of poetry, Peace of My Mind<\/I>, in 1988, and wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film No Code of Conduct<\/I>.<\/LI><\/UL>"
}
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