# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/floella-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:14:45.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/floella-benjamin"
name: "Floella Benjamin"
slug: "floella-benjamin"
description: "Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin, is a Trinidadian-British actress, singer, presenter, author and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away, Jamboree and Fast Forward. On 28 June 2010, Lady Benjamin was introduced to the House of Lords as a life peer nominated by the Liberal Democrats. In 2024, she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award for her services to television."
tagline: "British actress, author, and businesswoman (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Benjamin_crop_2%2C_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             0.28698224852071
  historical:           11.650344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/FloellaBenjamin"
    handle:    "FloellaBenjamin"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071302/"
    handle:    "nm0071302"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.floellabenjamin.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1009586"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فلويلا بنيامين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فلويلا بينچامين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin%2C_Baroness_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90_%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9F%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98"
    title: "ფლოელა ბენჟამინი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Бенджамин, Флоэлла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/220167"
    title: "Floella Benjamin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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