# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vinnette-justine-carroll
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:47:55.844Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vinnette-justine-carroll"
name: "Vinnette Justine Carroll"
slug: "vinnette-justine-carroll"
description: "Vinnette Justine Carroll was an American playwright, actress, and theatre director. She was the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway, with her 1972 production of the musical Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. Until Liesl Tommy's 2016 nomination for Eclipsed, Carroll was the only African-American woman to have received a Tony Award nomination for direction."
tagline: "American actress and playwright (1922-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vinnette_Carroll%2C_1979.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: "1922-03-11"
deathDate: "2002-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.23
  momentum:             2.122302158273381
  historical:           5.078798666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141030/"
    handle:    "nm0141030"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnette_Justine_Carroll"
    title: "Vinnette Justine Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnette_Justine_Carroll"
    title: "Vinnette Justine Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "ڤينيت چوستين كارول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnette_Justine_Carroll"
    title: "Vinnette Justine Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnette_Carroll"
    title: "Vinnette Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnette_Justine_Carroll"
    title: "Vinnette Justine Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7932632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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