# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ma-lan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:23.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ma-lan"
name: "Ma Lan"
slug: "ma-lan"
description: "Ma Lan is a Chinese performing artist of Huangmei opera who usually plays dan (female) roles. Before her abrupt departure from the stage in 2000, Ma Lan was considered the most popular Huangmei opera performer in the country. She has won the Plum Blossom Award, the China TV Golden Eagle Award, and the Flying Apsaras Award, and performed on the CCTV New Year's Gala in 1984, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1997, and 2005. She is often compared to the 1950s/1960s superstar Yan Fengying, whom she movingly portrayed in a hit 1988 TV series."
tagline: "Actress"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.942189333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6587395/"
    handle:    "nm6587395"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ما لان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ما لان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Lan"
    title: "Ma Lan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%85%B0_(%E9%BB%84%E6%A2%85%E6%88%8F%E6%BC%94%E5%91%98)"
    title: "马兰 (黄梅戏演员)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6720760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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