# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carmen-zapata
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:30:56.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carmen-zapata"
name: "Carmen Zapata"
slug: "carmen-zapata"
description: "Carmen Margarita Zapata often referred to as \"The First Lady of the Hispanic Theater\" was an American actress best known for her role in the PBS bilingual children's program Villa Alegre. Zapata was also the co-founder and director of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts in Los Angeles. Zapata took an active part in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Zapata was born in New York City to Julio Zapata, a Mexican immigrant, and Ramona Roca, an Argentine immigrant."
tagline: "American actress (1927-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carmen_Zapata_and_Vito_Scotti.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: "1927-07-15"
deathDate: "2014-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.83
  momentum:             0.5562060889929742
  historical:           19.53157466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953175/"
    handle:    "nm0953175"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump