# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marilyn-burns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:04:07.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marilyn-burns"
name: "Marilyn Burns"
slug: "marilyn-burns"
description: "Marilyn Burns was an American actress. Burns is known for portraying survivor Sally Hardesty in Tobe Hooper's influential horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which established her as an early final girl and scream queen. In 2025, the film was her first to be inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress."
tagline: "American actress (1949–2014)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-05-07"
deathDate: "2014-08-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump