# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-kelly
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:48.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-kelly"
name: "Nancy Kelly"
slug: "nancy-kelly"
description: "Nancy Kelly was an American actress in film, theater, and television. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's The March of Time, and appeared in several films in the late 1920s. She became a leading lady upon returning to the screen in the late 1930s, while still in her teens, and made two dozen movies between 1938 and 1946, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James (1939), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone, later that same year. After turning to the stage in the late 1940s, she had her greatest success in a character role, the distraught mother in The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1955 stage production and an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the 1956 film adaptation, her last film role. Kelly worked regularly in television until 1963, then took over the role of Martha in the original Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for several months. She returned to television for a handful of appearances in the mid-1970s."
tagline: "American actress (1921–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nancy_Kelly_1955.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-03-25"
deathDate: "1995-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.829519172245892
  historical:           22.351124
  currentAttention:     13.16
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446715/"
    handle:    "nm0446715"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump