# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-yoon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:12.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-yoon"
name: "Jean Yoon"
slug: "jean-yoon"
description: "Jean Yoon is an American and Canadian actress and writer. An actress of Korean descent, Yoon is best known for originating the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play Kim's Convenience and in the award-winning CBC Television series adapted from the play, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations."
tagline: "Canadian actress and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Yoon_at_the_2018_CFC_Annual_Gala_and_Auction_(25432943247)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.885217333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jean_yoon"
    handle:    "jean_yoon"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1050153/"
    handle:    "nm1050153"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B0%A1%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E5%B0%B9"
    title: "簡恩·尹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان يون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان يون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Yoon"
    title: "Jean Yoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Yoon"
    title: "Jean Yoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Yoon"
    title: "Jean Yoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Yoon"
    title: "Jean Yoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%84_%EC%9C%A4"
    title: "진 윤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86_%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جین یون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171699"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88929"
    title: "Jean Yoon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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