# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carol-mayo-jenkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:17:26.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carol-mayo-jenkins"
name: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
slug: "carol-mayo-jenkins"
description: "Carol Mayo Jenkins was born November 24, 1938 in Knoxville, Tennessee, US. She is an American actress who is most famous for playing Elizabeth Sherwood, a liberal and stern but fair-minded English teacher at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts on T.V. series Fame. She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1986 but made a return for the series finale a year later."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carol_mayo_jenkins_1977.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: "1938-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             2.21185510428101
  historical:           7.946766666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420797/"
    handle:    "nm0420797"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mayo_Jenkins"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mayo_Jenkins"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "كارول مايو جنكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "كارول مايو چينكينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mayo_Jenkins"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mayo_Jenkins"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mayo_Jenkins"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mayo_Jenkins"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2939847"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227254"
    title: "Carol Mayo Jenkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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