# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samira-wiley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:35:28.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samira-wiley"
name: "Samira Wiley"
slug: "samira-wiley"
description: "Samira Wiley is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Poussey Washington in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series."
tagline: "American actor and model"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samira_Wiley_13.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: "1987-04-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.87
  momentum:             2.268200042202996
  historical:           24.15967066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/samirawiley"
    handle:    "samirawiley"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/whododatlikedat/"
    handle:    "whododatlikedat"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4148126/"
    handle:    "nm4148126"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سميرة وايلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սամիրա Ուիլի"
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    title: "Samira Wiley"
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    title: "사미라 와일리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samira Wiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Wiley"
    title: "Samira Wiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Wiley"
    title: "Samira Wiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Wiley"
    title: "Samira Wiley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уайли, Самира"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Samira Wiley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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