# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diana-sands
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:50:57.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diana-sands"
name: "Diana Sands"
slug: "diana-sands"
description: "Diana Patricia Sands was an American actress, perhaps most known for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character, Walter, in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959)."
tagline: "American actress (1934–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Diana_Sands_1963_(cropped).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: "1934-08-22"
deathDate: "1973-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             19.95296788842037
  historical:           10.03262666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762305/"
    handle:    "nm0762305"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Sands"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديانا ساندز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "ديانا ساندز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Sands"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Sands"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Sands"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Sands"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Сэндс, Дайана"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Sands"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B2"
    title: "ڈیانا سینڈز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5271295"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/103940"
    title: "Diana Sands"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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