# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-kelly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:20:25.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-kelly"
name: "Paula Kelly"
slug: "paula-kelly"
description: "Paula Alma Kelly was an American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer in films, television and theatre. Kelly's career began during the mid–1960s in theatre, making her Broadway debut as Mrs. Veloz in the 1964 musical Something More!, alongside Barbara Cook. Kelly's other Broadway credits include The Dozens (1969), Paul Sills' Story Theatre (1971), Ovid's Metamorphoses (1971), and Sophisticated Ladies (1981), based on the music of Duke Ellington, appearing with Gregory Hines and Phyllis Hyman."
tagline: "American actress and dancer (1943–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paula_Kelly_in_Bubbling_Brown_Sugar.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: "1943-10-21"
deathDate: "2020-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.26
  momentum:             0.6142072788195696
  historical:           16.620948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446780/"
    handle:    "nm0446780"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پائولا کلی (اویونچو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly_(Schauspielerin)"
    title: "Paula Kelly (Schauspielerin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly_(actress)"
    title: "Paula Kelly (actress)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly_(actriz)"
    title: "Paula Kelly (actriz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پائولا کلی (بازیگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly_(sz%C3%ADnm%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Paula Kelly (színművész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly"
    title: "Paula Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC_(%E5%A5%B3%E5%84%AA)"
    title: "ポーラ・ケリー (女優)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4%EB%9D%BC_%EC%BC%88%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "폴라 켈리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly"
    title: "Paula Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly_(actress)"
    title: "Paula Kelly (actress)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Kelly"
    title: "Paula Kelly"
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    title: "پاؤلا کیلی (اداکارہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Paula Kelly"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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