# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gretchen-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:37:57.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gretchen-franklin"
name: "Gretchen Franklin"
slug: "gretchen-franklin"
description: "Gretchen Gordon Franklin was an English actress and dancer with a career in show business spanning over 70 years. She played Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC1 soap opera EastEnders on a regular basis from 1985 until 1988. Following this, she made intermittent returns to the show, her appearances becoming increasingly infrequent and brief. Her final appearance was in 2000, marking the demise of her character."
tagline: "English actress (1911-2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Ethel_skinner.jpg"
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: "1911-07-07"
deathDate: "2005-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.65
  momentum:             1.453679970706701
  historical:           7.312608
  currentAttention:     4.24
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291434/"
    handle:    "nm0291434"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Franklin"
    title: "Gretchen Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "غريتشين فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جريتشين فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Franklin"
    title: "Gretchen Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Franklin"
    title: "Gretchen Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Franklin"
    title: "Gretchen Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Franklin"
    title: "Gretchen Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q243121"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/214115"
    title: "Gretchen Franklin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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