# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tess-harper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:11.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tess-harper"
name: "Tess Harper"
slug: "tess-harper"
description: "Tessie Jean Harper is an American actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart. Her other film appearances include Amityville 3-D (1983), Flashpoint (1984), Ishtar (1987), Far North (1988), and No Country for Old Men (2007). She also had a recurring role on the first three seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010) as Jesse Pinkman’s mother, as well as reprising her role in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8Z770Kk13MK1NP7skWmTxvRGx3V.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: "1950-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.76
  momentum:             0.9912616056799564
  historical:           22.023052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002128/"
    handle:    "nm0002128"
sources:
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    title: "تيس هاربر"
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    title: "تس هارپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_Harper"
    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "テス・ハーパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%85%8C%EC%8A%A4_%ED%95%98%ED%8D%BC"
    title: "테스 하퍼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Харпер, Тесс"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41249"
    title: "Tess Harper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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