# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-leighton
# Generated: 2026-09-07T02:19:31.108Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-leighton"
name: "Margaret Leighton"
slug: "margaret-leighton"
description: "Margaret Leighton was an English actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy, Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive Pimpernel, George More O'Ferrall's The Holly and the Ivy, Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury, John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors, Franklin J. Schaffner's The Best Man, Tony Richardson's The Loved One, John Ford's 7 Women, and Joseph Losey's The Go-Between and Galileo. For The Go-Between, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress."
tagline: "British actress (1922–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margaret_Leighton_1959.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-02-26"
deathDate: "1976-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.53148266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0500364"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump