ACTOR

Butterfly McQueen

1911 - 1995

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Butterfly McQueen (born Thelma McQueen; January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in films as "Prissy" in Gone with the Wind (1939). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Butterfly McQueen has received more than 1,427,328 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Butterfly McQueen is the 3,256th most popular actor (up from 3,670th in 2019), the 4,900th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,605th in 2019) and the 1,461st most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Butterfly McQueen ranks 3,256 out of 13,578. Before her are Joanna Pacuła, Carole Landis, Chris Vance, Scilla Gabel, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, and Hayley Mills. After her are Uhm Jung-hwa, Goran Višnjić, Joan Blondell, John Terry, Jacques Dufilho, and Albert Bassermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Butterfly McQueen ranks 181. Before her are Viktor Nekrasov, Hédi Amara Nouira, George Seaton, Guido del Mestri, Kaj Franck, and Said Akl. After her are Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Nicolae Kovács, Juan Carlos Zabala, Maurice Schumann, André Navarra, and Willem Johan Kolff. Among people deceased in 1995, Butterfly McQueen ranks 171. Before her are Bojan Adamič, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Khalid Bakdash, Georges Candilis, Robert Monroe, and Esmat Dowlatshahi. After her are Henri Laborit, Franco Fabrizi, Kalpana Datta, Eiji Okada, Gavriil Kachalin, and Sterling Morrison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Butterfly McQueen ranks 4,900 out of 20,380. Before her are Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Bill Richardson (1947), Eric Heiden (1958), Joseph Brant (1742), Barbara Hutton (1912), and Ron Woodroof (1950). After her are Joan Blondell (1906), John Terry (1950), Michael Giacchino (1967), Albert Tyler (1872), Louis Wolheim (1880), and Hunter Schafer (1998).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Butterfly McQueen ranks 1,461. Before her are Joel McCrea (1905), Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Richard Kiley (1922), Jonah Hill (1983), Michelle Williams (1980), and Carole Landis (1919). After her are Joan Blondell (1906), John Terry (1950), Louis Wolheim (1880), Giovanni Ribisi (1974), Gregory Hines (1946), and Doug Jones (1960).

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Television and Movie Roles

Gone with the Wind
Prissy
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Dec 15th 19397.9 / 10
The Mosquito Coast
Ma Kennywick
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
Nov 26th 19866.37 / 10
Mildred Pierce
Lottie (uncredited)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Oct 20th 19457.6 / 10