ACTOR

Barbara Windsor

1937 - 2020

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Dame Barbara Windsor (born Barbara Ann Deeks; 6 August 1937 – 10 December 2020) was an English actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1994 and won the 1999 British Soap Award for Best Actress, before leaving the show in 2016 when her character was killed off. Windsor began her career on stage in 1950 at the age of 13, and made her film debut as a schoolgirl in The Belles of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Windsor has received more than 6,224,697 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Barbara Windsor is the 4,861st most popular actor (down from 4,436th in 2019), the 3,728th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,504th in 2019) and the 568th most popular British Actor.

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  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Barbara Windsor ranks 4,861 out of 13,578Before her are Alexandra Hedison, Rose Marie, Tim McInnerny, Charlotte Rae, Song Il-gook, and Al Matthews. After her are Nancy Olson, Chad Michael Murray, Jason Biggs, Robert Carradine, Kelly Rowan, and Luke Hemsworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Barbara Windsor ranks 380Before her are Ferenc Kósa, Jacques Barrot, Jan Kaplický, Joanna Russ, René Kollo, and Frans De Mulder. After her are David Acevedo, Richard H. Truly, Lucinda Williams, Polly Holliday, Hans Cieslarczyk, and Imerio Massignan. Among people deceased in 2020, Barbara Windsor ranks 427Before her are Ernst Jean-Joseph, John Lyons, Nikolai Gubenko, Ram Vilas Paswan, Gordon Haskell, and Regis Philbin. After her are Roman Viktyuk, Keiji Fujiwara, Denis Goldberg, Valeriu Muravschi, Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov, and Günter Sawitzki.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Barbara Windsor ranks 3,728 out of 8,785Before her are Amlaíb Cuarán (1000), Roy Thomas Baker (1946), Tim McInnerny (1956), Helen Shapiro (1946), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), and James Steuart (1712). After her are Winifred McNair (1877), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Joseph Thomson (1858), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Eliza Acton (1799), and Captain Tom (1920).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Barbara Windsor ranks 568Before her are Michael Kitchen (1948), Tobias Menzies (1974), Kathy Burke (1964), Annabelle Wallis (1984), Anna Lee (1913), and Tim McInnerny (1956). After her are Jeremy Wade (1956), Ed Skrein (1983), Herbert Marshall (1890), Rupert Friend (1981), Pauline Collins (1940), and Michael Rennie (1909).