# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanya-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:38.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanya-wright"
name: "Tanya Wright"
slug: "tanya-wright"
description: "Tanya Wright is an American actress. Born and raised in South Bronx, New York, Wright studied Comparative Literature at Vassar College. After her graduation, she joined the cast of The Cosby Show as Tanya Simpson. She is known for her role as Phyllis Brooks on Buddies, as well as her recurring roles on 24 as Patty Brooks, NYPD Blue as Officer Maya Anderson, on True Blood as Deputy Kenya Jones, and as Crystal on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black."
tagline: "Actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AjF29SrFm2RxNTpUhMzvlwHG9dY.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.15
  momentum:             0.4838709677419356
  historical:           8.578369333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/tanyaTTwright"
    handle:    "tanyaTTwright"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942859/"
    handle:    "nm0942859"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%B9"
    title: "تانیا رائٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wright"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wright"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "تانيا رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "تانيا رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wright"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wright"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wright"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wright"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3980946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/161875"
    title: "Tanya Wright"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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