# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-underwood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:45:44.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-underwood"
name: "Ruth Underwood"
slug: "ruth-underwood"
description: "Ruth Underwood is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments for Frank Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention. She played for Zappa from 1968 until the mid-1970s, and again briefly before Zappa's death in 1993. She married fellow Zappa musician Ian Underwood."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Underwood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.83
  momentum:             3.126621691748833
  historical:           12.44879066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881039/"
    handle:    "nm0881039"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Underwood"
    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Underwood"
    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Underwood"
    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Underwood"
    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Underwood"
    title: "Ruth Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Underwood"
    title: "Ruth Underwood"
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    title: "Ruth Underwood"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump