# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-dean
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:27:46.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-dean"
name: "Laura Dean"
slug: "laura-dean"
description: "Laura Dean is an American film, television and voice actress who is known for the roles of Sophie, Rachel's coworker at Bloomingdale's, in the 3rd and 4th seasons of Friends, of the character Tamara in Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders, and on Christmas in Cartoontown. Since she was 10 years old, she also played the New York City Opera for five years in La bohème, Die tote Stadt and Mefistofele. She is best known for her role as Lisa, the ballet dancer who gets kicked out of the dance department in the film Fame. She also appeared in the Broadway musical version of Doonesbury and as the mother of the title character in The Who's Tommy."
tagline: "Actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3F7cDmSyyHXRsI0AjMkSFLWIn4n.jpg"
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: "1963-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.64
  momentum:             5.125081141735222
  historical:           10.17221866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212847/"
    handle:    "nm0212847"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/747dc1d9-371d-458a-a9ab-e80990dde462"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dean_(aktrise)"
    title: "Laura Dean (aktrise)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "لورا دين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "لورا دين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dean"
    title: "Laura Dean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dean_(actress)"
    title: "Laura Dean (actress)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dean_(actrice)"
    title: "Laura Dean (actrice)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dean"
    title: "Laura Dean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ローラ・ディーン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EB%9D%BC_%EB%94%98"
    title: "로라 딘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81)"
    title: "لورا ڈین (اداکارہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1438736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32387"
    title: "Laura Dean"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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