# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-peterman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:05.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-peterman"
name: "Melissa Peterman"
slug: "melissa-peterman"
description: "Melissa Peterman is an American actress, television host and comedian. She has played the role of Barbra Jean in the television comedy series Reba, appeared as Bonnie Wheeler in the ABC Family/Freeform series Baby Daddy, and was host of ABC Family's Dancing Fools, ABC's Bet on Your Baby, and CMT's The Singing Bee. From 2017 to 2024, she played Brenda Sparks in The Big Bang Theory spinoff series Young Sheldon. Since September 2023, she has been the host of the television game show Person, Place or Thing. It was announced she was cast in the Reba McEntire-led sitcom Happy's Place on NBC which premiered on October 18, 2024."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_Peterman_-_Los_Angeles_Comic_Con_2025.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: "1971-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.362476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Followtheblonde"
    handle:    "Followtheblonde"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676292/"
    handle:    "nm0676292"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.askmelissapeterman.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ميليسا بيترمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melissa Peterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melissa Peterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Peterman"
    title: "Melissa Peterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melissa Peterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Питерман, Мелисса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melissa Peterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "梅莉莎·彼得曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1274590"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/145816"
    title: "Melissa Peterman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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