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Billie Whitelaw

1932 - 2014

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Billie Honor Whitelaw (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billie Whitelaw has received more than 1,459,796 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Billie Whitelaw is the 3,745th most popular actor (up from 3,860th in 2019), the 3,028th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,157th in 2019) and the 445th most popular British Actor.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Billie Whitelaw ranks 3,745 out of 13,578. Before her are Branscombe Richmond, Sally Kellerman, Ron Silver, Stanislav Lyubshin, Peppino De Filippo, and Ernst Deutsch. After her are Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jobyna Ralston, Mikhail Pugovkin, L. Scott Caldwell, Michael Gross, and John Diehl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Billie Whitelaw ranks 281. Before her are Medea Abrahamyan, Kalyan Singh, Sanpei Shirato, Princess Margarita of Baden, Olga Fikotová, and Michel Leblond. After her are Tormod Knutsen, Edward Hardwicke, Otto Schily, Otis Davis, Antonio Roma, and Sígfrid Gràcia. Among people deceased in 2014, Billie Whitelaw ranks 247. Before her are Sue Townsend, Glen A. Larson, Antoine Duhamel, Martin Špegelj, Gundi Busch, and Brian Hart. After her are Valentin Mankin, Bruno Zumino, Bel Kaufman, Marilyn Burns, Ichirō Nagai, and Bernard Agré.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Billie Whitelaw ranks 3,028 out of 8,785. Before her are Alan Brown (1919), Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), Donald Watson (1910), John Lilburne (1614), Allan Ramsay (1713), and Jerome Flynn (1963). After her are Fred Pentland (1883), David Almond (1951), Martin McDonagh (1970), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Anthony Harvey (1930), and John Keegan (1934).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Billie Whitelaw ranks 445. Before her are Hermione Baddeley (1906), Mark Sheppard (1964), Ronald Lacey (1935), Alan Young (1919), Michael Gothard (1939), and Brian Blessed (1936). After her are Naveen Andrews (1969), Edward Hardwicke (1932), Felicity Jones (1983), Gladys Cooper (1888), Steve Marriott (1947), and Jeremy Northam (1961).

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Television and Movie Roles

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Joyce Cooper
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
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Mrs. Baylock
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Madame LeClerc
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
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