# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jennifer-ward-lealand
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:49:32.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jennifer-ward-lealand"
name: "Jennifer Ward-Lealand"
slug: "jennifer-ward-lealand"
description: "Jennifer Cecily Ward-Lealand is a New Zealand theatre and film actor, director, teacher and intimacy coordinator. She has worked for 40 years, appearing in over 120 theatre performances: Greek, Shakespeare, drama, comedy, devised, and musical theatre. Her screen credits include the 1993 movie Desperate Remedies as well as appearances in The Footstep Man, the soap Shortland Street and Australian comedy series Full Frontal."
tagline: "New Zealand actor and director (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jennifer_Ward-Lealand_CNZM_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.33
  momentum:             0.6818181818181819
  historical:           5.786145333333334
  currentAttention:     3.787878787878788
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911943/"
    handle:    "nm0911943"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/655116"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "چينيفير وارد ليالاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ward-Lealand"
    title: "Jennifer Ward-Lealand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ward-Lealand"
    title: "Jennifer Ward-Lealand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ward-Lealand"
    title: "Jennifer Ward-Lealand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ward-Lealand"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6178922"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/173382"
    title: "Jennifer Ward-Lealand"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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