# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tammy-o-rouke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:31:15.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tammy-o-rouke"
name: "Tammy O'Rouke"
slug: "tammy-o-rouke"
description: "Heather Michele O'Rourke was an American child actress. She had her breakthrough starring as Carol Anne Freeling in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist (1982), which received critical acclaim and established her as an influential figure in the genre. She went on to reprise the role in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) and Poltergeist III (1988), the last of which was released posthumously."
tagline: "Actress - sister of Heather O'Rourke."
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Heather_O%27Rourke_in_Happy_Days_%281982_ABC_Press_photo%29.jpg/330px-Heather_O%27Rourke_in_Happy_Days_%281982_ABC_Press_photo%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-09-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.83
  momentum:             1.747572815533981
  historical:           1.537689333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_O'Rourke"
    title: "Tammy O'Rourke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130406320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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