# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-sheridan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:01:40.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-sheridan"
name: "Margaret Sheridan"
slug: "margaret-sheridan"
description: "Margaret Elizabeth Sheridan, also known by her married name Margaret Wildman, was an American actress of the early 1950s, and protégée of director Howard Hawks. She is best remembered for her role as Nikki Nicholson opposite Kenneth Tobey in the 1951 science fiction classic The Thing from Another World."
tagline: "American actress (1926–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margaret_Sheridan_in_One_Minute_to_Zero_trailer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-10-29"
deathDate: "1982-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.05
  momentum:             2.917795844625113
  historical:           13.63629333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792212/"
    handle:    "nm0792212"
sources:
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    title: "مارگریٹ شیریڈن (اداکارہ)"
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    title: "مارغريت شيريدان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margaret Sheridan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sheridan_(Schauspielerin)"
    title: "Margaret Sheridan (Schauspielerin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sheridan_(actress)"
    title: "Margaret Sheridan (actress)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sheridan"
    title: "Margaret Sheridan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "مارگارت شریدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sheridan"
    title: "Margaret Sheridan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sheridan_(attrice)"
    title: "Margaret Sheridan (attrice)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マーガレット・シェリダン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "마거릿 셰리던"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66781"
    title: "Margaret Sheridan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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