# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shelley-long
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:19:53.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shelley-long"
name: "Shelley Long"
slug: "shelley-long"
description: "Shelley Lee Long is an American actress, singer, and comedian. For her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, Long received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in three episodes of the spin-off Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. From 2009 to 2018, she played the recurring role of DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series Modern Family."
tagline: "American actress and comedian (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shelley_Long_with_Terrie_Frankel_1996_Cable_Ace_Awards_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.248185824580006
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump