# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melinda-dillon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:45:10.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melinda-dillon"
name: "Melinda Dillon"
slug: "melinda-dillon"
description: "Melinda Ruth Dillon was an American actress. She was nominated for a 1963 Tony Award for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Absence of Malice (1981)."
tagline: "American actress (1939–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melinda_Dillon%2C_1976.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-10-13"
deathDate: "2023-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
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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