ACTOR

Elsa Lanchester

1902 - 1986

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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elsa Lanchester has received more than 2,781,817 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Elsa Lanchester is the 1,462nd most popular actor (up from 1,622nd in 2019), the 1,503rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,659th in 2019) and the 209th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Elsa Lanchester ranks 1,462 out of 13,578. Before her are Paul Bettany, Geraldine Page, Dominique Pinon, Jerry Orbach, Jamie Foxx, and Maria Riva. After her are Frank Grillo, Jeff Daniels, Aaron Eckhart, Jared Harris, Lee Min-ho, and Sela Ward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Elsa Lanchester ranks 96. Before her are Albert Bormann, Therese Brandl, Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Santos Iriarte, and Jan Tschichold. After her are Abraham Wald, Nicolás Guillén, William Walton, Samuel Goudsmit, Leopold Figl, and Vladimír Clementis. Among people deceased in 1986, Elsa Lanchester ranks 80. Before her are Emilio Fernández, J. Allen Hynek, André Leroi-Gourhan, Aleksandr Akimov, Hermann Gmeiner, and John Bagot Glubb. After her are Thierry Sabine, Ellison Onizuka, Christopher Isherwood, Yaroslav Stetsko, Gia Carangi, and Henri Toivonen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elsa Lanchester ranks 1,503 out of 8,785. Before her are Anthony Trollope (1815), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), Paul Bettany (1971), Robert Southey (1774), and Dennis Nilsen (1945). After her are Herbert Kilpin (1870), Christopher Hitchens (1949), Matthew Boulton (1728), Andrew Parker Bowles (1939), Jared Harris (1961), and Edward the Exile (1016).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Elsa Lanchester ranks 209. Before her are Emilia Clarke (1986), Billy Connolly (1942), Olivia Colman (1974), Iain Glen (1961), Emily Watson (1967), and Paul Bettany (1971). After her are Jared Harris (1961), Eddie Redmayne (1982), Robert Powell (1944), Rosamund Pike (1979), Samantha Fox (1966), and Andrew Lincoln (1973).

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