GET /people/{id}

tvmaze.com:tvmaze-api

Summary: Get person
Operation ID: getPerson
Auth: none

Retrieve detailed information about a specific person (actor, director, etc.) by their TVmaze ID. Returns biographical information including name, country, birthday, deathday, and images. Use this when you have a person ID and need their complete profile.

Original spec description

Retrieve all primary information for a given person (actor, crew member).

Usage Tips

- Use 'embed=castcredits' to include all shows this person appeared in - Use 'embed=crewcredits' to include crew credits - Birthday and deathday are in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) - Images provided in multiple sizes

Parameters (2)

embed (string, query, optional)

Embed related resources (castcredits, crewcredits)

id (integer, path, required)

TVmaze person ID

Examples (4)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get person by ID 1 curl https://api.tvmaze.com/people/1
Get person by ID 100 curl https://api.tvmaze.com/people/100
Get person by ID 1000 curl https://api.tvmaze.com/people/1000
Get person by ID doc_extracted https://api.tvmaze.com/people/50

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:35:33.545452 200 90ms
2026-03-23 10:20:54.927593 200 100ms
2026-03-23 09:28:35.485544 200 82ms
2026-03-23 09:12:53.640471 200 97ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 09:28:35.485544 36424e1c2f1b 0c38d4627523
2026-03-23 10:20:54.927593 0c38d4627523 dcf94ea4a38a
2026-03-23 10:35:33.545452 dcf94ea4a38a 4053077bc644