ACTOR

Gladys Cooper

1888 - 1971

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Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1934, where she starred in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gladys Cooper has received more than 1,233,275 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Gladys Cooper is the 3,805th most popular actor (down from 2,971st in 2019), the 3,053rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,600th in 2019) and the 450th most popular British Actor.

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  • 49.56

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gladys Cooper ranks 3,805 out of 13,578. Before her are Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Françoise Rosay, Haruko Sugimura, Peter Simonischek, Felicity Jones, and Fares Fares. After her are Natalya Seleznyova, Akira Emoto, Steve Marriott, So Ji-sub, Mohammad Bakri, and Ed O'Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Gladys Cooper ranks 169. Before her are Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, Zia ol Din Tabatabaee, Dan Andersson, Alexander Chayanov, Irving Cummings, and Walther von Wartburg. After her are František Langer, Osip Brik, Florence Lee, Tom Phillips, Edward Cook, and Edith Evans. Among people deceased in 1971, Gladys Cooper ranks 142. Before her are Jo Cals, Simon Vestdijk, Juhan Smuul, John Dall, Hjalmar Andersson, and Walther von Wartburg. After her are Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Ahmed Bahnini, Gerhard von Rad, Harald Öhquist, Cyril of Bulgaria, and Friedebert Tuglas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gladys Cooper ranks 3,053 out of 8,785. Before her are Ted Drake (1912), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Felicity Jones (1983), and Roy Urquhart (1901). After her are Jack Cardiff (1914), Richard Hakluyt (1552), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), Jack Broughton (1703), Steve Marriott (1947), and Edwin Flack (1873).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Gladys Cooper ranks 450. Before her are Michael Gothard (1939), Brian Blessed (1936), Billie Whitelaw (1932), Naveen Andrews (1969), Edward Hardwicke (1932), and Felicity Jones (1983). After her are Steve Marriott (1947), Jeremy Northam (1961), Madeleine Carroll (1906), Roger Rees (1944), Rhona Mitra (1976), and James Robertson Justice (1907).

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Television and Movie Roles

My Fair Lady
Mrs. Higgins
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Oct 21st 19647.497 / 10
Rebecca
Beatrice Lacy
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Mar 23rd 19407.9 / 10
Now, Voyager
Mrs. Henry Vale
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Oct 22nd 19427.328 / 10