# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melanie-smith-q432742
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:52:30.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melanie-smith-q432742"
name: "Melanie Smith"
slug: "melanie-smith-q432742"
description: "Melanie Smith is an American former actress. She appeared as Jerry Seinfeld's girlfriend, Rachel, in three episodes of Seinfeld. She was also the third actress to portray Tora Ziyal on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and had a starring role as Emily Stewart on As the World Turns from 1987 to 1992. Since retiring from acting in 2009, she has become a life coach and runs a yoga studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Unfinished Business: 8 Steps to Heal Your Trauma, Transcend Your Past, and Transform Your Life, and is the vocalist and a cowriter on her passion project jazz album, The Broken and the Breaker."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nUMADpjnWEgqflZs3bthmD1AZ7.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: "1962-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.58
  momentum:             7.647371768444648
  historical:           10.01808266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809322/"
    handle:    "nm0809322"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%AA%DA%BE_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81)"
    title: "میلانیا اسمتھ (اداکارہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "ميلاني سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "ميلانى سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88)"
    title: "ملانی اسمیت (اویونچو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Smithov%C3%A1_(here%C4%8Dka)"
    title: "Melanie Smithová (herečka)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Smith_(Schauspielerin)"
    title: "Melanie Smith (Schauspielerin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Smith_(actress)"
    title: "Melanie Smith (actress)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA_(%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%87_%D8%B2%D9%86)"
    title: "ملانی اسمیت (هنرپیشه زن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%9C%EB%9D%BC%EB%8B%88_%EC%8A%A4%EB%AF%B8%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "멜라니 스미스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Smith_(actrice)"
    title: "Melanie Smith (actrice)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Smith_(glumica)"
    title: "Melanie Smith (glumica)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432742"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106930"
    title: "Melanie Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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