# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shakina-nayfack
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:46:28.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shakina-nayfack"
name: "Shakina Nayfack"
slug: "shakina-nayfack"
description: "Shakina Nayfack is an American actress and transgender activist. She is most notable for her series regular role as Lola, a \"trans-truther\", on the second and third seasons of the Hulu television program Difficult People, on which she was also a writing consultant. In 2020, she became the first trans person to have a starring role on a major network comedy show, Connecting."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shakina_Nayfack.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4429530201342282
  historical:           7.494674666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Shakeenz"
    handle:    "Shakeenz"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/shakeenz/"
    handle:    "shakeenz"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6945376/"
    handle:    "nm6945376"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shakina.nyc/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakina_Nayfack"
    title: "Shakina Nayfack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakina_Nayfack"
    title: "Shakina Nayfack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakina_Nayfack"
    title: "Shakina Nayfack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakina_Nayfack"
    title: "Shakina Nayfack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%A7%DA%A9"
    title: "شاکینا نایفاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakina_Nayfack"
    title: "Shakina Nayfack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%AB%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%95"
    title: "ਸ਼ਾਕੀਨਾ ਨਾਇਫੈਕ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Shakina Nayfack"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump