# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valarie-pettiford
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:47:29.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valarie-pettiford"
name: "Valarie Pettiford"
slug: "valarie-pettiford"
description: "Valarie Pettiford is an American stage and television actress, dancer, and jazz singer. She received a Tony Award nomination for her role in the broadway production Fosse. She is also known for her role as Deirdre \"Big Dee Dee\" LaFontaine Thorne on the UPN television sitcom Half & Half."
tagline: "American actor and singer (b. 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valarie_Pettiford.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1960-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.97647733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678656/"
    handle:    "nm0678656"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Valarie Pettiford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والری پتیفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valarie_Pettiford"
    title: "Valarie Pettiford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valarie_Pettiford"
    title: "Valarie Pettiford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "والری پتیفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valarie_Pettiford"
    title: "Valarie Pettiford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valarie_Pettiford"
    title: "Valarie Pettiford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%B8%EB%9F%AC%EB%A6%AC_%ED%8E%98%ED%8B%B0%ED%8D%BC%EB%93%9C"
    title: "밸러리 페티퍼드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Петтифорд, Валери"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والیری پیٹیفورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3553484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31138"
    title: "Valarie Pettiford"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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