ACTOR

Colette Marchand

1925 - 2015

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Colette Janine Marchand (29 April 1925 – 5 June 2015) was a French prima ballerina and actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her performance as Marie Charlet in Moulin Rouge, directed by John Huston. During the height of her dance career she was considered one of the great dancers in Europe, known as Les jambes (The Legs), along with Violetta Elvin, Zizi Jeanmaire, Yvette Chauviré, Janine Charrat, and Margot Fonteyn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colette Marchand has received more than 60,265 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Colette Marchand is the 7,479th most popular actor (down from 4,181st in 2019), the 5,204th most popular biography from France (down from 3,995th in 2019) and the 372nd most popular French Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Colette Marchands by language

Over the past year Colette Marchand has had the most page views in the with 10,948 views, followed by French (1,583), and German (993). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (81.38%), Catalan (39.90%), and Hebrew (24.77%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Colette Marchand ranks 7,479 out of 13,578. Before her are Chad Coleman, Jack Gleeson, Ebru Şahin, Diego Klattenhoff, Helena Noguerra, and Taís Araújo. After her are Sophia Myles, Lee Beom-soo, Alfonso Ribeiro, Wakana Yamazaki, David Denman, and Indiana Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Colette Marchand ranks 492. Before her are Grigory Mkrtychan, Eric Fleming, Martin David Kruskal, P. Bhanumathi, Swami Rama, and Tom Dowd. After her are Edward F. Moore, Fernand Decanali, Bob Tinning, Phillip V. Tobias, William Jones, and Božena Srncová. Among people deceased in 2015, Colette Marchand ranks 451. Before her are Donna Douglas, Francis George, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Ferenc Juhász, Abu Anas al-Libi, and Darren Shahlavi. After her are Toller Cranston, Jiří Hledík, Miroslav Poljak, Kim Fowley, Josefa Francisco, and Justin Wilson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Colette Marchand ranks 5,204 out of 6,770. Before her are Benoît Costil (1987), Jain (1992), Eugène Grisot (1866), Jason Kouchak (1969), Mathilde Seigner (1968), and Tatiana de Rosnay (1961). After her are Didier Flament (1951), Catherine Mouchet (1959), Matthieu Chedid (1971), Jean Gachet (1894), Youssef El-Arabi (1987), and Jean-Christophe Boullion (1969).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Colette Marchand ranks 372. Before her are Stanislas Merhar (1971), Yeardley Smith (1964), Alexandra Lamy (1971), Laurent Lafitte (1973), Léa Drucker (1972), and Mathilde Seigner (1968). After her are Catherine Mouchet (1959), Anne Brochet (1966), Mélanie Thierry (1981), Nikolai Kinski (1976), Stéphane Freiss (1960), and Guillaume Gallienne (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

Moulin Rouge
Marie Charlet
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women
Dec 23o 19526.7 / 10
Venom and Eternity
(voice)
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Apr 20o 19516.9 / 10
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
6.4 / 10