# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betty-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:04:01.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betty-thomas"
name: "Betty Thomas"
slug: "betty-thomas"
description: "Betty Thomas is an American director and actress. She is known for her role as Sergeant Lucy Bates on the television series Hill Street Blues, a role for which she was nominated for an Emmy award seven times, winning once. Her latest film, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, was at the time the highest-grossing film ever directed by a solo woman director"
tagline: "American actress and director (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betty_Thomas_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.18
  momentum:             1.034130853838304
  historical:           20.01698266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858525/"
    handle:    "nm0858525"
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump