# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merle-dandridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:27:27.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merle-dandridge"
name: "Merle Dandridge"
slug: "merle-dandridge"
description: "Merle Dandridge is an American actress and singer. She is best known for performing in Broadway musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Spamalot, Rent, and Once on This Island, as well as her video game roles as Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2 and Marlene in The Last of Us franchise. She played the leading role of Grace Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf (2016–2020). She has had recurring roles on television series such as Sons of Anarchy and The Night Shift and starred as Kim Hammond in the first season of HBO Max comedy-drama series The Flight Attendant in 2020. In 2022, Dandridge began starring as Natasha Seo-Yeon Ross in the ABC action series Station 19. She reprised her role as Marlene in the 2023 television adaptation of The Last of Us."
tagline: "American actress and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merle_Dandridge_2019.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1975-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.95
  momentum:             0.2083756173465936
  historical:           14.743204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/merledandridge"
    handle:    "merledandridge"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/merledandridge/"
    handle:    "merledandridge"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1617568/"
    handle:    "nm1617568"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميرل داندريدج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميرل داندريدچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dandridge"
    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dandridge"
    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC"
    title: "مارلی دندریج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dandridge"
    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מרלה דנדרידג'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dandridge"
    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Dandridge"
    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%80_%EB%8C%84%EB%93%9C%EB%A6%AC%EC%A7%80"
    title: "멀 댄드리지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مرل ڈینڈرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Дэндридж, Мерл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мерл Дандриџ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Merle Dandridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%92_%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC"
    title: "مرلے ڈینڈریج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3306524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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