# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:34:22.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-foster"
name: "Frances Foster"
slug: "frances-foster"
description: "Frances Helen Foster was an American film, television and stage actress. In addition to being an actress, Foster was also an award–winning stage director and an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company. Moreover, in 1955, she became the first African American to appear in a nationally broadcast television commercial."
tagline: "American actress (1924-1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Frances_Foster_resize.jpg"
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: "1924-06-11"
deathDate: "1997-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.31
  momentum:             14.09965658005573
  historical:           6.845612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287804/"
    handle:    "nm0287804"
sources:
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    title: "فرانسس فوسٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Foster"
    title: "Frances Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانسيس فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانسيس فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Foster"
    title: "Frances Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانسیس فاستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%9C%EC%8B%9C%EC%8A%A4_%ED%8F%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0"
    title: "프랜시스 포스터"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5478651"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/140178"
    title: "Frances Foster"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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