# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kristy-mcnichol
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:04:10.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kristy-mcnichol"
name: "Kristy McNichol"
slug: "kristy-mcnichol"
description: "Christina Ann \"Kristy\" McNichol is an American former actress. Beginning her career as a child actress, she rose to fame in 1976 with her role as the teenage daughter Letitia \"Buddy\" Lawrence in the TV drama Family for which she won two Emmy Awards. Subsequent roles included Angel in the film Little Darlings, Polly in Only When I Laugh, and Barbara Weston in the TV sitcom Empty Nest. McNichol retired from acting in 2001."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Family_Kristy_McNichol_1977.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: "1962-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.46
  momentum:             1.857813276976289
  historical:           23.44418666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Макникол, Кристи"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump