# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madhur-jaffrey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:14:55.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madhur-jaffrey"
name: "Madhur Jaffrey"
slug: "madhur-jaffrey"
description: "Madhur Jaffrey CBE is an actress, cookbook and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006. She has written over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programmes, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, which premiered in the UK in 1982. She was the food consultant at the now-closed Dawat, which was considered by many food critics to be among the best Indian restaurants in New York City."
tagline: "Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madhur_Jaffrey_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.03647734325865
  historical:           22.15662133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  215
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0415528"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.madhur-jaffrey.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump