# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:33:50.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-foster"
name: "Ruth Foster"
slug: "ruth-foster"
description: "Ruth E. Foster was an American actress who portrayed Walnut Grove's postmaster, also named Foster, for several seasons on the NBC TV series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)."
tagline: "American actress (1920-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Jaffe_%26_Ruth_Foster_1965.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: "1920-01-29"
deathDate: "2012-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.22574
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288038/"
    handle:    "nm0288038"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Foster"
    title: "Ruth Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "روث فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "روث فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Foster"
    title: "Ruth Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Foster"
    title: "Ruth Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Foster"
    title: "Ruth Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Foster"
    title: "Ruth Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227131"
    title: "Ruth Foster"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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