# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-elizabeth-mcdonough
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:11:25.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-elizabeth-mcdonough"
name: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
slug: "mary-elizabeth-mcdonough"
description: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough, sometimes credited as Mary Beth McDonough, is an American actress and writer, best known for her role as Erin Walton on The Waltons from 1972 to 1981, and several subsequent made-for-television reunion films in later decades."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Elizabeth_McDonough_(2012%2C_crop).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: "1961-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.30879333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568169/"
    handle:    "nm0568169"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.marymcdonough.com/"
sources:
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    title: "میری الزبتھ میک ڈونو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارى اليزابيث ماكدونو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "مری الیزابت مک‌دانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "مری الیزابت مک‌دانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Beth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%94%EB%A6%AC_%EB%B2%A0%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A7%A5%EB%8F%84%EB%84%88"
    title: "메리 베스 맥도너"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_McDonough"
    title: "Mary Beth McDonough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/161463"
    title: "Mary Elizabeth McDonough"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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