# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jillian-kesner-graver
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:03:45.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jillian-kesner-graver"
name: "Jillian Kesner-Graver"
slug: "jillian-kesner-graver"
description: "Jillian Kesner-Graver, credited onscreen as Jillian Kesner, was an American actress and historian who worked with her husband, Gary Graver, to preserve the work and legacy of director Orson Welles. She was best known as an actress for playing Fonzie's girlfriend, Lorraine, on a 1977 episode of Happy Days."
tagline: "American actress (1949-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jillian_Kesner_(1996).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: "1949-08-09"
deathDate: "2007-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.68
  momentum:             16.73913043478261
  historical:           5.956589333333334
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0450242/"
    handle:    "nm0450242"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%B1-%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جلیان کیسنر-گریور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jillian_Kesner-Graver"
    title: "Jillian Kesner-Graver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چيليان كيسنير جراڤير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jillian_Kesner-Graver"
    title: "Jillian Kesner-Graver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%88%EB%A6%AC%EC%95%88_%EC%BC%80%EC%8A%A4%EB%84%88"
    title: "질리안 케스너"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jillian_Kesner-Graver"
    title: "Jillian Kesner-Graver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2249250"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/104333"
    title: "Jillian Kesner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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