# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anna-held
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:30:00.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anna-held"
name: "Anna Held"
slug: "anna-held"
description: "Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born French stage performer of Jewish origin on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law wife. From 1896 through 1910, she was one of Broadway's most celebrated leading ladies, presented in a succession of musicals as a charming, coquettish Parisian singer and comedienne, with an hourglass figure and an off-stage reputation for exotic behavior, such as bathing in 40 gallons of milk a day to maintain her complexion. Detractors implied that her fame owed more to Ziegfeld's promotional flair than to any intrinsic talent, but her audience allure was undeniable for over a decade, with several of her shows setting house attendance records for their time. Her uninhibited style also inspired the long-running series of popular revues, the Ziegfeld Follies."
tagline: "French-American stage performer (1872–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anna_Held_JWS19265.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1865-03-18"
deathDate: "1918-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.60799733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374894/"
    handle:    "nm0374894"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2261127"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آنا هيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "آنا هيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "آنا هلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Хелд, Анна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%88"
    title: "اینا ہیلڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held"
    title: "Anna Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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