ACTOR

Brenda Fricker

1945 - Today

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Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, earning the award for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic My Left Foot (1989). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brenda Fricker has received more than 3,318,521 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Brenda Fricker is the 1,294th most popular actor (up from 1,541st in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 86th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Irish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Brenda Fricker ranks 1,294 out of 13,578. Before her are Ernst Busch, Rhea Seehorn, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Wade Williams, Oleg Popov, and Henry Bergman. After her are Terry O'Quinn, Pedro Pascal, Brigitte Fossey, Katy Jurado, Rupert Everett, and Chazz Palminteri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Brenda Fricker ranks 155. Before her are Hans-Gert Pöttering, Carly Simon, Lee Jong-wook, Ilija Petković, Gary Brooker, and John Banville. After her are Frans Sammut, Rhonda Byrne, Baghdadi Mahmudi, Mustafa Balel, Richard Henderson, and Robert Wyatt.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Brenda Fricker ranks 73 out of 549. Before her are J. D. Bernal (1901), Edmund the Martyr (841), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), John Banville (1945), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), and Peter Lacy (1678). After her are James Barry (1795), Saint Fiacre (607), Vergilius of Salzburg (700), Brigid of Kildare (451), Neil Jordan (1950), and James Hoban (1762).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Brenda Fricker ranks 11. Before her are Cillian Murphy (1976), Gabriel Byrne (1950), Brendan Gleeson (1955), Maureen O'Hara (1920), David Kelly (1929), and Colin Farrell (1976). After her are Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), Liam Cunningham (1961), Edward Mulhare (1923), Fiona Shaw (1958), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977).

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