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Florence Lawrence

1886 - 1938

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Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Florence Lawrence has received more than 526,453 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Florence Lawrence is the 1,540th most popular actor (up from 2,709th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Canada (up from 215th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Canadian Actor.

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  • 530k

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  • 62.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Florence Lawrence ranks 1,540 out of 13,578. Before her are Paul Wegener, Bonnie Bedelia, Kelly Bishop, Joan Cusack, Lily Tomlin, and Graham Greene. After her are Roscoe Arbuckle, Miguel Ferrer, Ben Johnson, John Glover, Alicia Rhett, and Solomon Mikhoels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Florence Lawrence ranks 91. Before her are Sholem Schwarzbard, Edwin Fischer, Hiroshi Ōshima, Shūmei Ōkawa, Olaf Stapledon, and Edward Weston. After her are Frank Nitti, Anandyn Amar, Marthe Bibesco, Rudolf Schmidt, Stefania Wilczyńska, and Salvador de Madariaga. Among people deceased in 1938, Florence Lawrence ranks 85. Before her are Bernd Rosemeyer, Sholem Schwarzbard, Nikolai Krylenko, Christen C. Raunkiær, Max Factor, and William Henry Pickering. After her are Gillis Grafström, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Edwin Hall, Ante Trumbić, Octavian Goga, and Hans Litten.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Florence Lawrence ranks 120 out of 1,622. Before her are Reginald Fessenden (1866), Paul Martin (1938), Rick Moranis (1953), Linda Evangelista (1965), Bruce Greenwood (1956), and Graham Greene (1952). After her are Loreena McKennitt (1957), Eric McCormack (1963), Mary Simon (1947), Steven Pinker (1954), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), and Lorne Greene (1915).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Florence Lawrence ranks 36. Before her are Margot Kidder (1948), Deanna Durbin (1921), Walter Huston (1883), Rick Moranis (1953), Bruce Greenwood (1956), and Graham Greene (1952). After her are Eric McCormack (1963), Lorne Greene (1915), Evangeline Lilly (1979), Joseph Wiseman (1918), Katheryn Winnick (1977), and Eugene Levy (1946).

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