# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yolanda-montes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:01:27.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yolanda-montes"
name: "Yolanda Montes"
slug: "yolanda-montes"
description: "Yolanda Montes, better known by her stage-name Tongolele, was a Mexican–American dancer, actress and vedette. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema."
tagline: "Mexican exotic dancer, actress and vedette (1932–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tongolele_in_a_photograph_from_circa_1950s_(cropped).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: "1932-01-03"
deathDate: "2025-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.59
  momentum:             1.123829344432882
  historical:           9.153936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599600/"
    handle:    "nm0599600"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Montes"
    title: "Yolanda Montes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Montes"
    title: "Yolanda Montes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "يولاندا مونتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ياولاندا تونجوليلي مونتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Montes"
    title: "Yolanda Montes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Montes"
    title: "Yolanda Montes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongolele"
    title: "Tongolele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%A1_%D5%84%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%BD"
    title: "Իոլանդա Մոնտես"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Монтес, Иоланда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolanda_Montes"
    title: "Yolanda Montes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8054721"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942363"
    title: "Yolanda Montes 'Tongolele'"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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