ACTOR

Della Reese

1931 - 2017

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Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". In the late 1960s she hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 197 episodes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Della Reese has received more than 3,958,534 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Della Reese is the 5,750th most popular actor (down from 5,209th in 2019), the 8,402nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,751st in 2019) and the 2,610th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Della Reese ranks 5,750 out of 13,578. Before her are Blanca Portillo, David James Elliott, Aleksey Buldakov, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, and Katrin Cartlidge. After her are Phil Harris, Greg Grunberg, Christine Ebersole, Martin Mull, Camryn Manheim, and Débora Falabella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Della Reese ranks 462. Before her are Chiharu Igaya, Alfred W. Crosby, Pierre Chambon, Michael Hardie Boys, Georgi Naydenov, and Giovanni Zucchi. After her are D. M. Jayaratne, Índio, Galina Shamrai, Thorvald Strömberg, Carlos Graça, and Sergio Obeso Rivera. Among people deceased in 2017, Della Reese ranks 433. Before her are Niels Helveg Petersen, Walter Kollmann, Atanase Sciotnic, Rosa Taikon, Charlie Murphy, and Eugène Parlier. After her are Peter Sarstedt, Françoise Héritier, Pancho Segura, Raúl Córdoba, Nicolae Lupescu, and Kjell Grede.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Della Reese ranks 8,402 out of 20,380. Before her are Diane Sawyer (1945), Gail Goodrich (1943), Sam Harris (1967), Frankie Manning (1914), John Michael Talbot (1954), and Virgil Thomson (1896). After her are Marilyn Ferguson (1938), Phil Harris (1904), Greg Grunberg (1966), Johnny Burnette (1934), Christine Ebersole (1953), and Marco Rubio (1971).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Della Reese ranks 2,610. Before her are Gailard Sartain (1946), Dominique Swain (1980), Anna Thomson (1953), June Lockhart (1925), Charlie Murphy (1959), and Martha Vickers (1925). After her are Phil Harris (1904), Greg Grunberg (1966), Christine Ebersole (1953), Martin Mull (1943), Camryn Manheim (1961), and Debra Mooney (1947).

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Television and Movie Roles

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Eema (voice)
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
May 19th 20006.5 / 10
Touched by an Angel
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Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
7.2 / 10
Harlem Nights
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'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Nov 17th 19896.1 / 10