# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reta-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:12:54.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reta-shaw"
name: "Reta Shaw"
slug: "reta-shaw"
description: "Reta Shaw was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. She may be best remembered as the housekeeper, Martha Grant, on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and as the cook, Mrs. Brill, in the 1964 film Mary Poppins."
tagline: "American actress (1912-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Reta_Shaw_-_in_Mary_Poppins_(cropped).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: "1912-09-13"
deathDate: "1982-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.08054266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789931/"
    handle:    "nm0789931"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتا شاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D8%A7"
    title: "رتا شا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D8%A7"
    title: "ریتا شا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%ED%83%80_%EC%87%BC"
    title: "레타 쇼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Шоу, Рита"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D8%A7"
    title: "ریٹا شا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/be2def9d-e76e-4da7-9f7f-1fe3a2f2e380"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5828"
    title: "Reta Shaw"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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