# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maia-morgenstern
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:58:18.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maia-morgenstern"
name: "Maia Morgenstern"
slug: "maia-morgenstern"
description: "Maia Emilia Ninel Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress. Internationally, she is best known for portraying the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she has been nationally known since her role as Nela in the 1992 film Balanța, known in the United States as The Oak, set during the waning days of Communist Romania. She received a star on the Romanian Walk of Fame in Bucharest on 1 May 2011. In 2007, she was described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as \"a symbol of Romanian theater and film\"."
tagline: "Romanian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maia_Morgenstern.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.63596
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump