# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isabel-sanford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:38:28.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isabel-sanford"
name: "Isabel Sanford"
slug: "isabel-sanford"
description: "Eloise Gwendolyn \"Isabel\" Sanford was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian known for her role as Louise \"Weezy\" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she became the second African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award after Gail Fisher and the first African-American actress to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series."
tagline: "American actress (1917–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Jeffersons_Sanford_Hemsley_Evans_1974.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-08-29"
deathDate: "2004-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.64683733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0762567"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump