ACTOR

Françoise Rosay

1891 - 1974

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Françoise Rosay (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz ʁozɛ]; born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche; 19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Rosay has received more than 94,939 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Françoise Rosay is the 3,800th most popular actor (down from 3,472nd in 2019), the 4,049th most popular biography from France (down from 3,712th in 2019) and the 254th most popular French Actor.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

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  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Françoise Rosay ranks 3,800 out of 13,578. Before her are JoBeth Williams, Gavin MacLeod, Harry Morgan, Carl Lumbly, Fernando Lamas, and Giacomo Rossi Stuart. After her are Haruko Sugimura, Peter Simonischek, Felicity Jones, Fares Fares, Gladys Cooper, and Natalya Seleznyova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Françoise Rosay ranks 185. Before her are William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Alfred Sturtevant, Yevgeny Polivanov, Philipp Etter, Mae Busch, and Princess Pilar of Bavaria. After her are Dmitry Furmanov, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Jan Wils, Harald Öhquist, Franz Babinger, and Fritz Rasp. Among people deceased in 1974, Françoise Rosay ranks 156. Before her are Jack Benny, Kick Smit, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Emil Väre, Clyde Cowan, and Gheorghe Albu. After her are Arnaud Denjoy, Zaharia Stancu, Élie Lescot, Ned Maddrell, Alfred Keller, and Marie Luise Kaschnitz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Rosay ranks 4,049 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean Grémillon (1902), René Maire (1878), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Henri Jobier (1879), Régis Wargnier (1948), and Jean-Claude Mézières (1938). After her are André Blondel (1863), Willy Ronis (1910), Marcel Arland (1899), Bernard Panafieu (1931), René Panhard (1841), and Émile Étienne Guimet (1836).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Françoise Rosay ranks 254. Before her are Richard Berry (1950), Dominique Blanc (1956), Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892), Paul Meurisse (1912), Saïd Taghmaoui (1973), and Victor Lanoux (1936). After her are André Wilms (1947), Dominique Lavanant (1944), Juliet Berto (1947), Michel Blanc (1952), Olivier Marchal (1958), and Gabrielle Réjane (1856).

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Television and Movie Roles

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Margaret Molyneux
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Oct 20o 19376.9 / 10
The Red Inn
Marie Martin
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Oct 19o 19516.8 / 10
Carnival in Flanders
Madame Burgomaster
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
Dec 3o 19357.3 / 10