# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cara-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:42.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cara-williams"
name: "Cara Williams"
slug: "cara-williams"
description: "Cara Williams was an American film and television actress. She was best known for her role as Billy's mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960–62 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. At the time of her death, Williams was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood."
tagline: "American actress (1925–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cara_Williams.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1925-06-29"
deathDate: "2021-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.78
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0930209"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump