# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-cook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:57:34.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-cook"
name: "Barbara Cook"
slug: "barbara-cook"
description: "Barbara Cook was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s, when she began a second career as a cabaret and concert singer. She also made numerous recordings."
tagline: "American actress and singer (1927-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BarbaraCookApr2011.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: "1927-10-25"
deathDate: "2017-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.55
  momentum:             0.0902737332556785
  historical:           18.99140666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176904/"
    handle:    "nm0176904"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6SY4hPB2QITF4kQUui96EP"
    handle:    "Barbara Cook"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.barbaracook.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربرا كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cook"
    title: "Barbara Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Բարբարա Կուկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ბარბარა კუკი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "바버라 쿡"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кук, Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cook"
    title: "Barbara Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "芭芭拉·库克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/63915470-2562-4feb-abf8-c0e22ec82cb4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Barbara Cook"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump