# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wendy-beckett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:45:41.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wendy-beckett"
name: "Wendy Beckett"
slug: "wendy-beckett"
description: "Wendy Mary Beckett, better known as Sister Wendy, was a British Catholic religious sister and art historian who became known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience. In 1997 she made her debut on US public television, with The New York Times describing her as \"a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television.\""
tagline: "British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art (1930-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Sister_Wendy_Beckett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1930-02-25"
deathDate: "2018-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.26
  momentum:             15
  historical:           16.317684
  currentAttention:     16.28
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065728/"
    handle:    "nm0065728"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump