# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-charles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:28.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-charles"
name: "Maria Charles"
slug: "maria-charles"
description: "Maria Zena Schneider, known professionally as Maria Charles, was an English film, television and stage actress, director and comedienne. She was perhaps best known for her performance as the overbearing mother Bea Fisher in the ITV sitcom Agony. Charles also appeared on the stage in original West End productions, including musicals by Stephen Sondheim, Charles Strouse and Sandy Wilson."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Portrait_of_Maria_Charles.jpg/330px-Portrait_of_Maria_Charles.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1929-09-22"
deathDate: "2023-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.714726666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153093/"
    handle:    "nm0153093"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Charles"
    title: "Maria Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "مارية تشارلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "ماريا تشارلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Charles"
    title: "Maria Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Charles"
    title: "Maria Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Чарльз, Мария"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Charles"
    title: "Maria Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%81_%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "ماریہ چارلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6761092"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/194899"
    title: "Maria Charles"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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