# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheryl-lee-ralph
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:56.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheryl-lee-ralph"
name: "Sheryl Lee Ralph"
slug: "sheryl-lee-ralph"
description: "Sheryl Lee Ralph is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she earned acclaim for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Since 2021, she has starred as Barbara Howard on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award."
tagline: "American actress and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheryl_Lee_Ralph_-_Philadelphia_BME_Leadership_Awards_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.43152533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0005336"
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    handle:    "thesherylralph"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump