# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joanna-merlin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:03:29.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joanna-merlin"
name: "Joanna Merlin"
slug: "joanna-merlin"
description: "Joanna Merlin was an American actress and casting director who worked with Stephen Sondheim and starred in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. She wrote two acting guides and was a faculty member of New York University's graduate acting program. From 2000 to 2011, she was known for her recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge Lena Petrovsky."
tagline: "American actress (1931–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Joanna_Merlin_nonfree.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1931-07-15"
deathDate: "2023-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.44
  momentum:             10
  historical:           14.49718
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581008/"
    handle:    "nm0581008"
sources:
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    title: "Joanna Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوانا مرلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joanna Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joanna Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Merlin"
    title: "Joanna Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joanna Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%95%88%EB%82%98_%EB%A9%80%EB%A6%B0"
    title: "조안나 멀린"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Merlin"
    title: "Joanna Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мерлин, Джоанна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joanna Merlin"
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    title: "Джоанна Мерлін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوانا مرلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/421c53fc-6265-4512-91be-981623d8931c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump