# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lea-niako
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:21:16.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lea-niako"
name: "Lea Niako"
slug: "lea-niako"
description: "Maria Kruse (1908–?), better known by her stage name Lea Niako, was a German exotic dancer and actress. Niako was renowned across Europe for her dance performances in the late interwar period, from 1926 to 1933. She often performed with little to no clothes; nude dancing, or Nackttanz, was at the time popular and was seen as an artistic expression of modernity and emancipation. For her unusual and exotic performances, she garnered great attention in the international press. She also broke through into the film industry, appearing in the Portuguese film Fátima Milagrosa (1928) and the Spanish film La Carta (1931)."
tagline: "German dancer and actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lea_Niako._Foto_von_Wilhelm_Willinger%2C_c._1927_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1908-04-13"
deathDate: "1996-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.680310666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629182/"
    handle:    "nm0629182"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Niako"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "ليا نياكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B"
    title: "লিয়া নিয়াকো"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Niako"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Niako"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Niako"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Niako"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Niako"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3228614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2905149"
    title: "Lea Niako"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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