# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerie-landsburg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:52:01.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerie-landsburg"
name: "Valerie Landsburg"
slug: "valerie-landsburg"
description: "Valerie Landsburg is an American actress, television and film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her portrayal of Doris Schwartz in the 1982 series Fame, interpreting, for television, the role that Maureen Teefy had originated in the film. She was also the lead singer on the UK top five hit \"Hi Fidelity\". Producer Alan Landsburg was her father, and she appeared in at least one installment of True Confessions, an anthology series program he produced."
tagline: "American actress, director, screenwriter, singer-songwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9X88qVtZMSWjbTQNpMrjtdgss9n.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.89
  momentum:             2.336448598130841
  historical:           13.24900133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485142/"
    handle:    "nm0485142"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ڤاليرى لاندسبورج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ولری لندزبرق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF"
    title: "ولری لندزبرگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%92"
    title: "ואלרי לנדסברג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%B8%EB%9F%AC%EB%A6%AC_%EB%9E%9C%EC%A6%88%EB%B2%84%EA%B7%B8"
    title: "밸러리 랜즈버그"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF"
    title: "ویلری لینڈزبرگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/160418"
    title: "Valerie Landsburg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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