# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madeleine-sherwood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:38:44.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madeleine-sherwood"
name: "Madeleine Sherwood"
slug: "madeleine-sherwood"
description: "Madeleine Sherwood was a Canadian actress of stage, film and television. She portrayed Mae/Sister Woman and Miss Lucy in both the Broadway and film versions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, and starred or featured in 18 original Broadway productions including Arturo Ui, Do I Hear a Waltz? and The Crucible. In 1963 she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hey You, Light Man! Off-Broadway. In television, she played Reverend Mother Placido to Sally Field's Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun (1967–70)."
tagline: "Canadian actress (1922–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madeleine_Sherwood_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-11-13"
deathDate: "2016-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.38
  momentum:             18.88119808708784
  historical:           13.53187333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792828/"
    handle:    "nm0792828"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ماديلين شيروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "ماديلين شيروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "مدلن شروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "مدلن شروود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%93%A4%EB%A6%B0_%EC%85%94%EC%9A%B0%EB%93%9C"
    title: "마들린 셔우드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Sherwood"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%DA%88"
    title: "میڈلین شیرووڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275324"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3639"
    title: "Madeleine Sherwood"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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