# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanya-saracho
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:27:24.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanya-saracho"
name: "Tanya Saracho"
slug: "tanya-saracho"
description: "Tanya Selene Saracho is a Mexican-American actress, playwright, dramaturge and screenwriter. With a background in theater before writing for television, she co-founded Teatro Luna in 2000 and was its co-artistic director for ten years. She also co-founded the Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists (ALTA) of Chicago. She is particularly known for centering the \"Latina gaze\". She developed and was showrunner of the Starz series Vida, which ran for three seasons (2018–2020). Saracho signed a three-year development deal with Starz in February 2018."
tagline: "Mexican-American actress, playwright and showrunner"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2wrLpqB64Rme70WxF5KKwQavRzR.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.948201333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TanyaSaracho"
    handle:    "TanyaSaracho"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tanyasaracho/"
    handle:    "tanyasaracho"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/tanyasaracho"
    handle:    "tanyasaracho"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2571374/"
    handle:    "nm2571374"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanya_Saracho"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "تانيا ساراتشو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Saracho"
    title: "Tanya Saracho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Saracho"
    title: "Tanya Saracho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Saracho"
    title: "Tanya Saracho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Saracho"
    title: "Tanya Saracho"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22280306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1436947"
    title: "Tanya Saracho"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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