# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melanie-kinnaman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:59:01.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melanie-kinnaman"
name: "Melanie Kinnaman"
slug: "melanie-kinnaman"
description: "Melanie Kinnaman is an American film and stage actress. She is known for her role as Pam Roberts in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. She later co-starred with Eric Roberts in the 1989 film Best of the Best. Kinnaman has made guest appearances on television in programs such as Hill Street Blues, The People Next Door and Cheers. She is continuing acting and working on projects for stage, television and film."
tagline: "American actress and dancer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3WtPRegDVNMSfym3EIjd3SV6NXP.jpg"
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: "1953-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             4.209346422251485
  historical:           6.855188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455687/"
    handle:    "nm0455687"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Melanie_Kinnaman"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ميلانى كينامان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Kinnaman"
    title: "Melanie Kinnaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Kinnaman"
    title: "Melanie Kinnaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Kinnaman"
    title: "Melanie Kinnaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Kinnaman"
    title: "Melanie Kinnaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "میلانیا کنامن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2913301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/197057"
    title: "Melanie Kinnaman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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