# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurel-hester
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:49:07.942Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurel-hester"
name: "Laurel Hester"
slug: "laurel-hester"
description: "Laurel Anne Hester was a police lieutenant with the Ocean County, New Jersey Prosecutor's Office, who came to national attention with her deathbed appeal for the extension of pension benefits to her domestic partner. Her battle was shown in Freeheld (2007), the winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, and the feature film of the same name (2015), in which Hester is portrayed by Julianne Moore."
tagline: "American activist and police officer (1956-2006)"
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: "1956-08-15"
deathDate: "2006-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.42
  momentum:             2.276295133437991
  historical:           9.428152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2532689/"
    handle:    "nm2532689"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "لوريل هيستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "لورل هستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%B2%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8D_%E0%AC%B9%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%B0"
    title: "ଲରେଲ୍ ହେଷ୍ଟର"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hester"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Хестер, Лорел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1723121"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2151556"
    title: "Laurel Hester"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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