# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merle-louise
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:25:50.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merle-louise"
name: "Merle Louise"
slug: "merle-louise"
description: "Merle Louise was an American actress, best known for appearing in four Stephen Sondheim musicals, most famously as \"The Beggar Woman\" in Sweeney Todd, for which she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Cropped_Photo_of_Merle_Louise.jpg"
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: "1934-04-15"
deathDate: "2025-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.65
  momentum:             4.761904761904761
  historical:           7.488302666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521957/"
    handle:    "nm0521957"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/011becd6-7970-46d9-8172-54f80a1a7dd7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "مرلي لويز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "مرلى لويز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Louise"
    title: "Merle Louise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Louise"
    title: "Merle Louise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Louise"
    title: "Merle Louise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Louise"
    title: "Merle Louise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Louise"
    title: "Merle Louise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13560361"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1959358"
    title: "Merle Louise"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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