# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nia-vardalos
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:38:45.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nia-vardalos"
name: "Nia Vardalos"
slug: "nia-vardalos"
description: "Antonia Eugenia \"Nia\" Vardalos is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. She starred in and wrote the romantic comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and which went on to spawn a media franchise."
tagline: "Canadian-born American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer of Greek descent"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nia_Vardalos_in_2011_cropped_retouched.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2197287082881669
  historical:           23.52245466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "NiaVardalos"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/NiaVardalosInstantMom"
    handle:    "NiaVardalosInstantMom"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    title: "Նիա Վարդալոս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump