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Anna Massey

1937 - 2011

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Anna Raymond Massey (11 August 1937 – 3 July 2011) was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her". Massey is also well known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) as a barmaid who becomes involved with a suspected killer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Massey has received more than 1,526,210 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anna Massey is the 3,889th most popular actor (up from 4,376th in 2019), the 3,109th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,452nd in 2019) and the 458th most popular British Actor.

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  • 49.38

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna Massey ranks 3,889 out of 13,578Before her are Josh Hutcherson, Enrico Maria Salerno, Carlo Verdone, Josh Lucas, Jason Beghe, and James Read. After her are Jonah Falcon, Alice Joyce, Edi Gathegi, Kim Raver, Alexander Knox, and Mario Casas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Anna Massey ranks 307Before her are Merle Haggard, Jennifer Welles, Brian G. Marsden, Nikolay Drozdov, Moacyr Scliar, and Galimzyan Khusainov. After her are Nélida Piñon, Joe Henderson, Jørgen Leth, Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Lawrence Roberts, and Una Stubbs. Among people deceased in 2011, Anna Massey ranks 259Before her are Abderrahmane Mahjoub, John Stott, Inge Sørensen, Marco Simoncelli, Moacyr Scliar, and Gil Scott-Heron. After her are Géza Alföldy, James L. Elliot, Alenush Terian, Francesco Quinn, Grete Waitz, and Scott Columbus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Massey ranks 3,109 out of 8,785Before her are Andrew Marvell (1621), James Arthur (1988), Tom Phillips (1888), David Don (1799), Dora Carrington (1893), and Duncan Grant (1885). After her are William Thoms (1803), Charles Townshend (1725), Florence Green (1901), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Alec McCowen (1925), and Don McCullin (1935).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Anna Massey ranks 458Before her are Jeremy Northam (1961), Madeleine Carroll (1906), Roger Rees (1944), Rhona Mitra (1976), James Robertson Justice (1907), and Anthony Andrews (1948). After her are Alec McCowen (1925), Edith Evans (1888), Henry Travers (1874), Anton Lesser (1952), Ben Barnes (1981), and Rory McCann (1969).