# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zelda-rubinstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:03:40.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zelda-rubinstein"
name: "Zelda Rubinstein"
slug: "zelda-rubinstein"
description: "Zelda May Rubinstein was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. Playing \"Ginny\", she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning television series Picket Fences for two seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as seer Christina, and was the voice of Skittles candies in their long-running \"Taste the Rainbow\" ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS."
tagline: "American actress (1933-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zelda_Rubinstein%2C_1985.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-05-28"
deathDate: "2010-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump