# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-puryear
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:32:59.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-puryear"
name: "Tony Puryear"
slug: "tony-puryear"
description: "Erika Rose Alexander is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist who played the roles of Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show from 1990 to 1992, and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998. She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her film credits include The Long Walk Home (1990), 30 Years to Life (2001), Déjà Vu (2006), Get Out (2017), American Refugee (2021), Earth Mama (2023) and American Fiction (2023), for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance."
tagline: "American screenwriter (born 1957)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Erika_Alexander_at_EssenceFest_2025_-_cropped.jpg/330px-Erika_Alexander_at_EssenceFest_2025_-_cropped.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           32.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.202232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Puryear"
    title: "Tony Puryear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16886159"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57074"
    title: "Tony Puryear"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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