ACTOR

Anna Torv

1979 - Today

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Anna Torv (born 7 June 1979) is an Australian actress who has worked extensively in the US. Her performance as Olivia Dunham in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013) earned her four consecutive Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television, a record for any performer. She portrayed psychologist Wendy Carr in the Netflix period crime drama Mindhunter from 2017 to 2019, and Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us in 2023. She is especially known in Australia for the ABC drama The Newsreader, for which she won two consecutive AACTA Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Torv has received more than 8,434,604 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Anna Torv is the 4,081st most popular actor (up from 4,354th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Australia (up from 174th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Australian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna Torv ranks 4,081 out of 13,578. Before her are Roger Lloyd-Pack, Lance Kinsey, Sylvia Chang, Carol Channing, Inna Makarova, and Nils Poppe. After her are Mark Gatiss, Shannon Elizabeth, Gilbert Roland, Aleksandr Belyavsky, Estelle Taylor, and Denver Pyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Anna Torv ranks 82. Before her are Mena Suvari, Joel Kinnaman, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Norah Jones, Alexander Frei, and Jesse Spencer. After her are Tang Wei, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Diego Luna, Paulo Ferreira, Juan, and Murat Yıldırım.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Anna Torv ranks 166 out of 1,143. Before her are Peter Cosgrove (1947), John Bromwich (1918), Daniel Ricciardo (1989), Tommy Emmanuel (1955), Lew Hoad (1934), and Jesse Spencer (1979). After her are Portia de Rossi (1973), Owen Davidson (1943), J. L. Mackie (1917), Sheila Fitzpatrick (1941), Dawn Fraser (1937), and Sidney Nolan (1917).

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Among ACTORS In Australia

Among actors born in Australia, Anna Torv ranks 39. Before her are Richard Roxburgh (1962), Costas Mandylor (1965), Mae Busch (1891), Ben Mendelsohn (1969), Anthony LaPaglia (1959), and Jesse Spencer (1979). After her are Portia de Rossi (1973), Abbie Cornish (1982), Rose Byrne (1979), Alex O'Loughlin (1976), Barry Humphries (1934), and Joel Edgerton (1974).

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Television and Movie Roles

Fringe
Olivia Dunham
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
8.129 / 10
MINDHUNTER
Wendy Carr
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
8.073 / 10
Secret City
Harriet Dunkley
Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.
6.576 / 10