# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-malina-white
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:39:04.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-malina-white"
name: "Karen Malina White"
slug: "karen-malina-white"
description: "Karen Malina White is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Kaneesha Carter in the 1989 drama film Lean on Me, Charmaine Brown during the two final seasons on The Cosby Show (1990–1992) and its spin-off A Different World (1992–1993), Nicolette Vandross on Malcolm & Eddie (1996–2000), and as the voice of Dijonay Jones on the Disney Channel animated comedy The Proud Family (2001–2005) and its 2022 Disney+ reboot The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karen_Malina_White_Headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6897472410110359
  historical:           8.965729333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925045/"
    handle:    "nm0925045"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارين مالينا وايت"
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    title: "كارين مالينا وايت"
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    title: "کارن مالینا وایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کارن مالینا وایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "카렌 말리나 화이트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уайт, Карен Малина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212706"
    title: "Karen Malina White"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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