# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elke-neidhardt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:19:21.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elke-neidhardt"
name: "Elke Neidhardt"
slug: "elke-neidhardt"
description: "Elke Cordelia Neidhardt AM was a German-born actress and opera and theatre director. She spent most of her career after 1967 in Australia and became an Australian citizen in 2007. She appeared in theatre, television and feature films in Germany, Austria, France and Australia, and directed operas in Zurich, Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Vienna, Cologne and Australia. She is best known in Australia for directing operas with Opera Australia, and most particularly for directing the first full modern Australian production of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, in Adelaide in 2004."
tagline: "Actress, director (1941-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Cropped_Photo_of_Elke_Neidhardt.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-07-05"
deathDate: "2013-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             14.34782608695652
  historical:           5.278222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624612/"
    handle:    "nm0624612"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elke_Neidhardt"
    title: "Elke Neidhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%AA"
    title: "الك نيدهاردت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elke_Neidhardt"
    title: "Elke Neidhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elke_Neidhardt"
    title: "Elke Neidhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elke_Neidhardt"
    title: "Elke Neidhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elke_Neidhardt"
    title: "Elke Neidhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110124"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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