ACTOR

Anna Sten

1908 - 1993

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Anna Sten (December 3, 1908 – November 12, 1993, born Anna Petrivna Fesak) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union, then traveled to Germany, where she starred in several films. Her performances were noticed by film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to the United States with the aim of creating a screen personality to rival Greta Garbo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Sten has received more than 186,348 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anna Sten is the 1,989th most popular actor (up from 2,169th in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 378th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Actor.

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  • 190k

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  • 54.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna Sten ranks 1,989 out of 13,578. Before her are Angela Winkler, Charles Grodin, Nell Gwyn, George Hilton, Tuba Büyüküstün, and Dan Hedaya. After her are Warner Baxter, Paul Winfield, Jason Bateman, Erika Eleniak, Paolo Stoppa, and Michael Parks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Anna Sten ranks 140. Before her are Salo Flohr, Richard Wright, Aurelio Peccei, Ivan Yefremov, Lee Krasner, and Mario Evaristo. After her are Juan López Fontana, Mel Blanc, Lupe Vélez, Paul Henreid, Henryk Zygalski, and Elio Vittorini. Among people deceased in 1993, Anna Sten ranks 99. Before her are Raymond Burr, Euronymous, Sun Ra, Leo Löwenthal, Ugo Locatelli, and Mario Evaristo. After her are Richard Jordan, Józef Czapski, Pierre Victor Auger, Guido Masetti, Chishū Ryū, and John Tuzo Wilson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anna Sten ranks 371 out of 1,365. Before her are Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Anatoly Onoprienko (1959), Anatoli Polivoda (1947), Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (1849), Olga Kurylenko (1979), and Richard Boleslawski (1889). After her are Dmitry Levitzky (1735), Leonid Popov (1945), Dimitry of Rostov (1651), Vitold Fokin (1932), Alexander Matrosov (1924), and Anna Bilińska (1854).

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Among ACTORS In Ukraine

Among actors born in Ukraine, Anna Sten ranks 13. Before her are Ida Kamińska (1899), Mila Kunis (1983), Elisabeth Bergner (1897), Bohdan Stupka (1941), Mark Bernes (1911), and Olga Kurylenko (1979). After her are Liya Akhedzhakova (1938), Leonid Bykov (1928), Nonna Mordyukova (1925), Leonid Kanevsky (1939), Ada Rogovtseva (1937), and Nikolai Grinko (1920).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Girl with the Hat Box
Natasha
A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.
Apr 19o 19276.2 / 10
The Wedding Night
Manya Novak
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
Mar 8o 19356 / 10
The Yellow Ticket
Maria, young farmer's wife
Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
Feb 7o 19285.2 / 10