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Do we like Fátima Ptacek?

Our score: 6 out of 10. Nothing harmful found and a clean public run, but too little recent, well-sourced material to score her any higher.

Fátima Ptacek is a Queens-raised actress and former child model. When CBS New York profiled her in January 2012 she was 11. She'd already appeared in more than 60 TV commercials, plus shows including Saturday Night Live and Royal Pains.

Her big break was being picked to voice Dora in Dora the Explorer as the show began its seventh season. She told CBS she didn't know which role she was auditioning for until she recognised lines from old episodes. Her heart “definitely skipped at least three beats”, she said.

The profile also gives a bit of her background. Her mother is an accountant from Ecuador, her father is a retired NYPD detective, and she speaks English and Spanish and was studying Mandarin. Asked about her ambitions, she said she'd “definitely want to have my own show”.

On the harm check, we searched her name against LGBTQ+ and trans issues, women, migrants, vaccines, climate and politics. Nothing turned up that she has said or done, and no sign she's tied to anyone pushing harm. That's an absence of evidence rather than a glowing reference, and we couldn't open much more reporting on her, so treat it as a light pass.

There's nothing new on her lately. We found no news from this year, and no confirmed live-action roles in the last few years, only some voice credits. The one old news story that came up was a school-discipline dispute from when she was a teenager. We've left it out because it was about school life, not her public conduct.

On the good stuff, search summaries link her to pediatric HIV awareness work with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and the Latino Commission on AIDS. We couldn't open a page confirming the details or dates, so we're not leaning on it. If it holds up, it's the right kind of thing for a child star to do with her platform.