# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-colby
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:24:51.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-colby"
name: "Barbara Colby"
slug: "barbara-colby"
description: "Barbara Colby was an American actress. She appeared in episodes of numerous television series before a 1974 appearance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show led to a main cast role on the new series Phyllis; after filming three episodes, she and a colleague were murdered outside an acting class, in an unsolved shooting."
tagline: "American actress (1939-1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Barbara_Colby.gif"
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: "1939-07-02"
deathDate: "1975-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.27
  momentum:             15
  historical:           12.81799066666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170346/"
    handle:    "nm0170346"
sources:
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    title: "باربرا کولبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "باربرا كولبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "باربرا كولبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "باربارا کوولبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "باربارا کوولبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC"
    title: "バーバラ・コルビー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Колби, Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Colby"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q439951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220731"
    title: "Barbara Colby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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