# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yvette-freeman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:29:23.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yvette-freeman"
name: "Yvette Freeman"
slug: "yvette-freeman"
description: "Yvette Freeman is an American actress, singer and director. Predominantly active as a stage actress, she made her Broadway debut in 1979 in the original production of Ain't Misbehavin'. She won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her portrayal of Dinah Washington in the 1998 Off-Broadway play Dinah Was. On television, she is best known for her roles as Haleh Adams in the NBC medical drama series ER, Evelyn Smalley in the TV series Working, and Irma Lerman in Orange Is the New Black."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/dZEeLMoDL9O0SRLlmptaxzfUwbT.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.195156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293623/"
    handle:    "nm0293623"
sources:
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    title: "یویٹ فری مین"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيفيت فريمان"
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    title: "ايفيت فريمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Freeman"
    title: "Yvette Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Freeman"
    title: "Yvette Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AA_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%86"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yvette Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Freeman"
    title: "Yvette Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%B2%A0%ED%8A%B8_%ED%94%84%EB%A6%AC%EB%A8%BC"
    title: "이베트 프리먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Freeman"
    title: "Yvette Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Фриман, Иветт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/167146"
    title: "Yvette Freeman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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