# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leah-chase
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:30:05.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leah-chase"
name: "Leah Chase"
slug: "leah-chase"
description: "Leyah (Leah) Chase was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. An author and television personality, she was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating both African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and was known as a gallery due to its extensive African-American art collection. In 2018 it was named one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years by Food & Wine."
tagline: "American chef (1923-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeahChaseAp08Crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1923-01-06"
deathDate: "2019-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.891512000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 147
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2671222/"
    handle:    "nm2671222"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3dff507c-58e4-49f7-9b1d-ee9dddf2e2a4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ليا تشيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Chase"
    title: "Leah Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Chase"
    title: "Leah Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Chase"
    title: "Leah Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Chase"
    title: "Leah Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Chase"
    title: "Leah Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6509170"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1717748"
    title: "Leah Chase"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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