# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/faith-salie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:35.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/faith-salie"
name: "Faith Salie"
slug: "faith-salie"
description: "Faith Coley Salie is an American journalist, writer, actress, comedian, television, radio, and podcast host. She is a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. She hosted Science Goes To The Movies on PBS and CUNY TV. She is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 4 million times. Her first book, Approval Junkie, \"a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval,\" was published by Crown in April 2016. Salie adapted it into a solo show which she performed Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City in 2021. The play premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in 2019."
tagline: "American writer, journalist, actress and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Faith_Salie_at_Boston_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.993705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/faith_salie"
    handle:    "faith_salie"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/faithsalie/"
    handle:    "faithsalie"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/faith.salie.1"
    handle:    "faith.salie.1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758276/"
    handle:    "nm0758276"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.faithsalie.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9d6cfb9c-ade6-47ca-9dcb-78fa8a7c3337"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Salie"
    title: "Faith Salie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "فايث سالى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Salie"
    title: "Faith Salie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Salie"
    title: "Faith Salie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Salie"
    title: "Faith Salie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5431225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221693"
    title: "Faith Salie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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