ACTOR

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 1,510,435 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anna Massey is the 3,885th 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 457th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

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  • 49.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna Massey ranks 3,885 out of 13,578. Before 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 307. Before 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 259. Before 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 8,785. Before 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).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Anna Massey ranks 457. Before 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).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Machinist
Mrs. Shike
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Jul 2o 20047.5 / 10
Peeping Tom
Helen Stephens
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
May 16o 19607.4 / 10
Frenzy
Barbara Jane 'Babs' Milligan
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
May 25o 19727.1 / 10