# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rossa-matilda-richter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:01:31.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rossa-matilda-richter"
name: "Rossa Matilda Richter"
slug: "rossa-matilda-richter"
description: "Rossa Matilda Richter, who used the stage name Zazel, was an English aerialist and actress who became known as the first human cannonball at the age of 17. She began performing at a very young age, practicing aerial stunts like tightrope walking in an old London church. She took up ballet, gymnastics, and trapeze by the time she was 6 and, at 12, went on tour with a travelling acrobat troupe. In 1877, she was the first person to be fired out of a cannon, in front of a large crowd at the Royal Aquarium."
tagline: "English aerialist and actor who became the first human cannonball"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zazel_(tall_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1860-04-07"
deathDate: "1937-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.71
  momentum:             10.57108063068837
  historical:           5.020808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Matilda_Richter"
    title: "Rosa Matilda Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter"
    title: "Rossa Matilda Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter"
    title: "Rossa Matilda Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter"
    title: "Rossa Matilda Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter"
    title: "Rossa Matilda Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28456654"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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