# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zainab-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:43.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zainab-johnson"
name: "Zainab Johnson"
slug: "zainab-johnson"
description: "Zainab Johnson is an American stand-up comedian, actress and podcaster. She debuted her comedy album in 2016, her half-hour television special in 2018 and her hour-long streaming TV special in 2023. Johnson was the winner of ABFF's inaugural Comedy Wings competition in 2013 and was a contestant on NBC's competition TV show Last Comic Standing in 2014. Variety listed her in its '10 Comics to Watch for 2019'. She is known for her role as Aleesha on the Prime Video series Upload (2020–25), as a voice actor on YouTube Original series Tab Time (2021–22), and as co-host of Netflix series 100 Humans (2020)."
tagline: "American comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zainab_Johnson_Melbourne_comedy_festival_2018.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: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.243997333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2827538/"
    handle:    "nm2827538"
sources:
  - url: "https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Johnson"
    title: "Zainab Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Johnson"
    title: "Zainab Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Johnson"
    title: "Zainab Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A8_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "زینب جانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Johnson"
    title: "Zainab Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Johnson"
    title: "Zainab Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89804770"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1703599"
    title: "Zainab Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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