# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-niven
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:23.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-niven"
name: "Barbara Niven"
slug: "barbara-niven"
description: "Barbara Lee Niven is an American actress, writer, and producer, best known for her performances in Hallmark and Lifetime movies, and for television roles in Pensacola: Wings of Gold, One Life to Live, Cedar Cove, and Chesapeake Shores. Niven had the leading role in the independent film A Perfect Ending (2012). She is also a motivational speaker, media trainer and animal rights activist, and a National Ambassador for American Humane."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Niven_on_Sidewalks_Entertainment.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: "1953-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.23
  momentum:             1.394037066881547
  historical:           15.52903066666667
  currentAttention:     7.74465037156415
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BarbaraNiven"
    handle:    "BarbaraNiven"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018271/"
    handle:    "nm0018271"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86"
    title: "باربرا نيفن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربرا نيڤين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باربارا نیون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باربارا نیون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "バーバラ・ニーヴン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%94%EB%B0%94%EB%9D%BC_%EB%8B%88%EB%B2%A4"
    title: "바바라 니벤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Нивен, Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "باربرا نیوین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Niven"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3634664"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/104646"
    title: "Barbara Niven"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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