# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-sterling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:40:08.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-sterling"
name: "Jan Sterling"
slug: "jan-sterling"
description: "Jan Sterling was an American film, television and stage actress. At her most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Her best performance is often considered to be opposite Kirk Douglas, as the opportunistic wife in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole. Although her career declined during the 1960s, she continued to play occasional television and theatre roles."
tagline: "American actress (1921–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Sterling_MS152_(cropped).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: "1921-04-03"
deathDate: "2004-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.37
  momentum:             8.434564809016909
  historical:           23.25337333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012443/"
    handle:    "nm0012443"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump