# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-alice
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:44:58.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-alice"
name: "Mary Alice"
slug: "mary-alice"
description: "Mary Alice Smith, known professionally as Mary Alice, was an American television, film, and stage actress. Alice was known for her roles as Leticia \"Lettie\" Bostic on the sitcom A Different World (1987–1989) and Effie Williams in the 1976 musical drama Sparkle, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her recurring role on the series I'll Fly Away. Alice also performed on the stage, and received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her appearance in the 1987 production of August Wilson's Fences."
tagline: "American actress (1941–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MaryAlice.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: "1941-12-03"
deathDate: "2022-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.59
  momentum:             0.008870162989244928
  historical:           20.45830533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019569/"
    handle:    "nm0019569"
sources:
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    title: "میری ایلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماري أليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مری آلیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "مری آلیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%BD"
    title: "Մերի Ալիս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98"
    title: "მერი ელისი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://knc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%94%EB%A6%AC_%EC%95%A8%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "메리 앨리스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Элис, Мэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice"
    title: "Mary Alice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271051"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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