# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lachanze
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:27.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lachanze"
name: "LaChanze"
slug: "lachanze"
description: "LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze, is an American actress, theater producer, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received four more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, The Outsiders, and Purpose."
tagline: "American actress, singer, and dancer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LaChanze.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1961-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.69
  momentum:             4.184561022016852
  historical:           12.84239866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0478447/"
    handle:    "nm0478447"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mslachanze.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/310234"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لاتشانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لاچانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaChanze"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B7"
    title: "Лашанз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B7"
    title: "Лашанз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8B%89%E5%B0%9A%E5%85%B9"
    title: "拉尚兹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/062f2356-fe52-4b5c-8c4a-24f2acd8b63c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3820592"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56689"
    title: "LaChanze"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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