# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alice-childress
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:04:32.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alice-childress"
name: "Alice Childress"
slug: "alice-childress"
description: "Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as \"the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.\" Childress described her work as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: \"My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary. Each human is uniquely different. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.\" Childress became involved in social causes, and formed an off-Broadway union for actors."
tagline: "American playwright and author (1916-1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Alice_Childress.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-10-12"
deathDate: "1994-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.164365333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157533/"
    handle:    "nm0157533"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "أليس تشايلدريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اليس تشايلدريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1513826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1027063"
    title: "Alice Childress"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump