ACTOR

Hedy Lamarr

1914 - 2000

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Hedy Lamarr (; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hedy Lamarr has received more than 21,003,457 page views. Her biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Hedy Lamarr is the 80th most popular actor (down from 79th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Austria (up from 50th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Actor.

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. She is most famous for her role in the film "Ecstasy" and for inventing a frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedoes.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hedy Lamarr ranks 80 out of 13,578. Before her are Jean Marais, Steven Seagal, Tom Selleck, Roger Moore, John Wayne, and Denzel Washington. After her are Michael Caine, Sharon Tate, Toshiro Mifune, Paul Newman, Yves Montand, and Judy Garland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr ranks 3. Before her are Louis de Funès, and Yuri Andropov. After her are Tove Jansson, Thor Heyerdahl, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, and Alec Guinness. Among people deceased in 2000, Hedy Lamarr ranks 2. Before her is Władysław Szpilman. After her are Ingrid of Sweden, Hafez al-Assad, Roger Vadim, Habib Bourguiba, Emil Zátopek, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Vittorio Gassman.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 49 out of 1,424. Before her are Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), Lise Meitner (1878), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Christian Doppler (1803), and Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678). After her are Otto von Habsburg (1912), Otto Skorzeny (1908), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), and Ludwig Boltzmann (1844).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 3. Before her are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), and Romy Schneider (1938). After her are Christoph Waltz (1956), Maximilian Schell (1930), Helmut Berger (1944), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), Maria Schell (1926), Oskar Werner (1922), Katharina Schratt (1853), Senta Berger (1941), and Lotte Lenya (1898).

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Television and Movie Roles

Samson and Delilah
Delilah
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
Dec 21st 19496.5 / 10
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self (archive footage)
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Jun 6th 20186.9 / 10
Ecstasy
Eva Hermann
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
Jan 20th 19336.34 / 10