# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billie-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:47:21.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billie-burke"
name: "Billie Burke"
slug: "billie-burke"
description: "Mary William Ethelbert Appleton \"Billie\" Burke was an American character actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is perhaps best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939)."
tagline: "American stage and film actress (1884-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billie_Burke.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: "1884-08-07"
deathDate: "1970-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.14
  momentum:             6.590296495956872
  historical:           24.3227
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000992/"
    handle:    "nm0000992"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Բիլի Բյորք (դերասանուհի)"
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    title: "ビリー・バーク (女優)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ბილი ბურკი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "빌리 버크 (여자 배우)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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