# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alison-laplaca
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:44:06.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alison-laplaca"
name: "Alison LaPlaca"
slug: "alison-laplaca"
description: "Alison La Placa is an American retired actress best known for playing Linda Phillips on the sitcom Duet and its spin-off Open House, playing Catherine Merrick in 49 episodes of The John Larroquette Show and the recurring role of Joanna, Rachel Green's boss who dated Chandler Bing on the sitcom Friends. Her last credit was in 2014."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/hShz60jJMgqGuKkrR0UPIrdPzwU.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.74
  momentum:             6.924831090220576
  historical:           12.64969066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0478844/"
    handle:    "nm0478844"
sources:
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    title: "ایلیسن لا پلاکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اليسون لاپلاكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلیسون لاپلاکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alison LaPlaca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_La_Placa"
    title: "Alison La Placa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_La_Placa"
    title: "Alison La Placa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "آلیسون لاپلاکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_La_Placa"
    title: "Alison La Placa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アリソン・ラプラカ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "앨리슨 라 플라카"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_La_Placa"
    title: "Alison La Placa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_LaPlaca"
    title: "Alison LaPlaca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лаплака, Элисон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2913571"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1218880"
    title: "Alison La Placa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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