# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-hotchkis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:03:00.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-hotchkis"
name: "Joan Hotchkis"
slug: "joan-hotchkis"
description: "Joan Hotchkis was an American stage, screen and television actress, writer and performance artist. A lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Dramatists Guild, Hotchkis was best known for playing Dr. Nancy Cunningham for several seasons on The Odd Couple, for co-writing with Eric Morris the seminal acting manual \"No Acting Please\" (1977), which is still used in colleges and conservatories, and for her groundbreaking performance art works in the 1990s."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan-hotchkis-trailer.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: "1927-09-21"
deathDate: "2022-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.42
  momentum:             0.05385996409335728
  historical:           8.373653333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396216/"
    handle:    "nm0396216"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DB%81%D9%88%D9%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "جان ہوٹکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hotchkis"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "چوان هوتشكيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hotchkis"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hotchkis"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hotchkis"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hotchkis"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hotchkis"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%87%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%81"
    title: "Джоан Готчкіс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6205142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/132874"
    title: "Joan Hotchkis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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