# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nina-mae-mckinney
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:18.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nina-mae-mckinney"
name: "Nina Mae McKinney"
slug: "nina-mae-mckinney"
description: "Nina Mae McKinney was an American actress and singer who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood. Dubbed \"The Black Garbo\" in Europe because of her striking beauty, McKinney was both one of the first African-American film stars in the United States and one of the first African-Americans to appear on British television."
tagline: "American actress (1912-1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nina_Mae_Mckinney_photoplay729.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-06-12"
deathDate: "1967-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.44
  momentum:             11.73913043478261
  historical:           15.62106533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571904/"
    handle:    "nm0571904"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "נינה מיי מקיני"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Mae_McKinney"
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    title: "니나 메이 매키니"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Mae_McKinney"
    title: "Nina Mae McKinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nina Mae McKinney"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Mae_McKinney"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127560"
    title: "Nina Mae McKinney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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