# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meryl-fernandes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:38.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meryl-fernandes"
name: "Meryl Fernandes"
slug: "meryl-fernandes"
description: "Meryl Glynis Fernandes is an English actress and presenter. She played Afia Masood, a love interest for Tamwar Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, originally making a guest appearance between 29 December 2009 and 5 January 2010. She returned to the role of Afia, on 18 November 2010, this time as a regular character. She departed EastEnders on 7 June 2012."
tagline: "Indian-born English actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meryl_Fernandes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1983-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             16.92872117400419
  historical:           5.087150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2857847/"
    handle:    "nm2857847"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Fernandes"
    title: "Meryl Fernandes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ميريل فيرنانديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Fernandes"
    title: "Meryl Fernandes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Fernandes"
    title: "Meryl Fernandes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B3"
    title: "میریل فرنینڈس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6011233"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3390960"
    title: "Meryl Fernandes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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