ACTOR

Fay Wray

1907 - 2004

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Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fay Wray has received more than 2,195,579 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Fay Wray is the 1,982nd most popular actor (down from 1,461st in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Canada (down from 111th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Fay Wrays by language

Over the past year Fay Wray has had the most page views in the with 293,122 views, followed by German (17,478), and Spanish (14,442). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (251.82%), Catalan (234.63%), and Slovenian (109.70%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Fay Wray ranks 1,982 out of 13,578. Before her are Carla Gravina, Noomi Rapace, Sibel Kekilli, Ray Winstone, Bernhard Wicki, and Barbara O'Neil. After her are Angela Winkler, Charles Grodin, Nell Gwyn, George Hilton, Tuba Büyüküstün, and Dan Hedaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Fay Wray ranks 142. Before her are Ramon Magsaysay, Roberto Cherro, Bo Gu, Ursula Kuczynski, Frederick Copleston, and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia. After her are L. Sprague de Camp, Sergei Kruglov, Parvin E'tesami, Isaac Deutscher, Max Pauly, and Viktoria Brezhneva. Among people deceased in 2004, Fay Wray ranks 107. Before her are Helmut Griem, Gordon Cooper, Walter Frentz, Czesław Niemen, Artie Shaw, and Alexandra Ripley. After her are Paul Winfield, Ann Miller, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Thomas Gold, Franz König, and Hussein al-Houthi.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Fay Wray ranks 156 out of 1,622. Before her are Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Sid Meier (1954), Donald Arnold (1935), James Gosling (1955), Ted Kotcheff (1931), and Brian Kernighan (1942). After her are Hayden Christensen (1981), Albert W. Tucker (1905), John Tuzo Wilson (1908), Denys Arcand (1941), Shawn Mendes (1998), and Brian Mulroney (1939).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Fay Wray ranks 47. Before her are Katheryn Winnick (1977), Eugene Levy (1946), Tom Cavanagh (1963), Peter Cullen (1941), Raymond Burr (1917), and William B. Davis (1938). After her are Hayden Christensen (1981), Raymond Massey (1896), Henry Czerny (1959), James Doohan (1920), Elisha Cuthbert (1982), and Stana Katic (1978).

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Television and Movie Roles

King Kong
Ann Darrow
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Mar 15o 19337.596 / 10
Return to Jurassic Park
Self (archive footage)
A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into six parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min), Making Prehistory (20 min), The Next Step in Evolution (15 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), Something Survived (16 min), and The Third Adventure (25 min).
Feb 5o 20116.604 / 10
The Most Dangerous Game
Eve Trowbridge
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Sep 16o 19326.962 / 10