# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rhea-perlman
# Generated: 2026-09-03T13:22:27.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rhea-perlman"
name: "Rhea Perlman"
slug: "rhea-perlman"
description: "Rhea Jo Perlman is an American actress and author. She is well-known for playing head waitress Carla Tortelli in the popular sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress, winning four, and was nominated for a record six Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. She has also appeared in films, including Canadian Bacon (1995), Matilda (1996), The Sessions (2012), Poms (2019) and Barbie (2023). In 2025, Perlman had a guest role in the second season of the crime mystery series Poker Face."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RheaPerlmanAug2011.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: "1948-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.69
  momentum:             2.540896847241736
  historical:           26.63305466666667
  currentAttention:     6.822329381337394
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rheaperlman"
    handle:    "rheaperlman"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/perlmonster/"
    handle:    "perlmonster"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674231/"
    handle:    "nm0674231"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
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    title: "Rhea Perlman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リー・パールマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%95%84_%ED%8E%84%EB%A8%BC"
    title: "레아 펄먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_Perlman"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_Perlman"
    title: "Rhea Perlman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24203"
    title: "Rhea Perlman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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