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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 2,222,744 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Fay Wray is the 1,463rd most popular actor (up from 1,535th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Canada (up from 125th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Fay Wray ranks 1,463 out of 9,996. Before her are Ben Cross, Karl Urban, George Hamilton, Lee Jung-jae, Kelly Bishop, and Martin Lawrence. After her are Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes, Michel Bouquet, Beverly D'Angelo, Lee Min-ho, and Katharine Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Fay Wray ranks 107. Before her are Shiro Teshima, Pedro Arrupe, Arseny Tarkovsky, Ilona Elek, Avraham Stern, and Roger Peyrefitte. After her are Tino Rossi, Maurice Couve de Murville, Sabahattin Ali, Bruno Munari, Frithjof Schuon, and Violette Leduc. Among people deceased in 2004, Fay Wray ranks 83. Before her are Roque Máspoli, Umberto Agnelli, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Eddie Adams, Saizo Saito, and Gordon Cooper. After her are Vasili Mitrokhin, Frances Shand Kydd, Anthony Steffen, Zenkō Suzuki, Uta Hagen, and Philip Abelson.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Fay Wray ranks 111 out of 1,350. Before her are Norman Jewison (1926), Loreena McKennitt (1957), Joseph Wiseman (1918), David Foster (1949), Margot Kidder (1948), and Louis Riel (1844). After her are Marc Ouellet (1944), Peter Cullen (1941), Joshua Slocum (1844), Martin Short (1950), Catherine O'Hara (1954), and Joanna Shimkus (1943).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Fay Wray ranks 30. Before her are Graham Greene (1952), Norma Shearer (1902), Walter Huston (1883), Conrad Bain (1923), Joseph Wiseman (1918), and Margot Kidder (1948). After her are Peter Cullen (1941), Martin Short (1950), Catherine O'Hara (1954), Joanna Shimkus (1943), Evangeline Lilly (1979), and William B. Davis (1938).

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