# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betsy-palmer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:32:17.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betsy-palmer"
name: "Betsy Palmer"
slug: "betsy-palmer"
description: "Betsy Palmer was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees, the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980)."
tagline: "American actress (1926–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betsy_Palmer_1960.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-11-01"
deathDate: "2015-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2383134738771769
  historical:           21.722756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump