# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henny-backus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:38:47.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henny-backus"
name: "Henny Backus"
slug: "henny-backus"
description: "Henny Backus was an American actress who was a Broadway showgirl in the 1930s. She played in Orson Welles's Horse Eats Hat. She was the wife of actor and comedian Jim Backus."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henny_Backus_(1969).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1911-03-21"
deathDate: "2004-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.4
  momentum:             10.62650602409638
  historical:           4.669084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045737/"
    handle:    "nm0045737"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Backus"
    title: "Henny Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Backus"
    title: "Henny Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Backus"
    title: "Henny Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Backus"
    title: "Henny Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9002893"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1228059"
    title: "Henny Backus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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