# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-tschechowa
# Generated: 2026-09-03T10:41:32.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-tschechowa"
name: "Vera Tschechowa"
slug: "vera-tschechowa"
description: "Vera Rust, known as Vera Tschechowa, was a German producer, director, screenwriter, and actress of Russian descent. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1996. She was widely known as Elvis Presley's companion, particularly in connection with his Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV) public booster-advocacy and which they both undertook during Presley's first year in Germany with the U.S. Army (1959)."
tagline: "Polish-German actress (1940–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vera_Tschechowa_1959.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-07-22"
deathDate: "2024-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.22931466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874782/"
    handle:    "nm0874782"
sources:
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    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
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    title: "ڤيرا تستشيتشوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%86%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ورا چخوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Tschechowa"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чехова, Вера"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51406"
    title: "Vera Tschechowa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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