# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michelle-ryan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:23:44.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michelle-ryan"
name: "Michelle Ryan"
slug: "michelle-ryan"
description: "Michelle Claire Ryan is an English actress, best known for playing Zoe Slater in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2007, she starred in the American television series Bionic Woman. She also appeared as the evil sorceress Nimueh in the 2008 BBC fantasy series Merlin and as Lady Christina de Souza in the 2009 Doctor Who episode \"Planet of the Dead\", a role she later reprised in various audio dramas between 2017 and 2023, including her own spin-off in 2017 and 2021."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michelle_Ryan_at_the_BAFTA's_(cropped).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: "1984-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.38211466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752740/"
    handle:    "nm0752740"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michelleryan.net/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Michelle Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michelle Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ミシェル・ライアン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michelle Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Райан, Мишель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Michelle Ryan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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