# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amber-riley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:10.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amber-riley"
name: "Amber Riley"
slug: "amber-riley"
description: "Amber Patrice Riley, sometimes known mononymously as Riley, is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her portrayal of Mercedes Jones on the Fox comedy-drama series Glee (2009–2015), for which she was nominated for three NAACP Image Awards, and won a shared Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. As a member of the Glee cast, Riley charted over 200 entries on the Billboard Hot 100, and was nominated for a Grammy Award."
tagline: "American actress and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amber_Riley_and_bear.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1986-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.8
  momentum:             6.60142414670841
  historical:           23.61560533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/msamberpriley/"
    handle:    "msamberpriley"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3232025/"
    handle:    "nm3232025"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5AKj7LRRQHfYPsCKfsptga"
    handle:    "5AKj7LRRQHfYPsCKfsptga"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "امبير رايلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "أمبير رايلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "امبر رایلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אמבר ריילי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アンバー・ライリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ემბერ რაილი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%B0%EB%B2%84_%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%BC%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "앰버 라일리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embera_Railija"
    title: "Embera Railija"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Riley"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e6c4e72b-fd1a-4c7e-85d6-761b5ac568e2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213109"
    title: "Amber Riley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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