ACTOR

Helena Modjeska

1840 - 1909

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Helena Modrzejewska (Polish: [mɔdʐɛˈjɛfska]; born Jadwiga Benda; October 12, 1840 – April 8, 1909), known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was successful first on the Polish stage. After emigrating to the United States (and despite her poor command of English), she also succeeded on stage in America and London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helena Modjeska has received more than 634,688 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Helena Modjeska is the 2,639th most popular actor (down from 2,044th in 2019), the 710th most popular biography from Poland (down from 566th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Actor.

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  • 630k

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  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Helena Modjeska ranks 2,639 out of 13,578. Before her are Lino Banfi, Chiara Mastroianni, Bruno S., Madhubala, Clark Gregg, and Chita Rivera. After her are Sarah Clarke, Warren Oates, Chico Marx, Bill Irwin, Jan Werich, and Sherilyn Fenn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Helena Modjeska ranks 52. Before her are Gabriel von Max, William Graham Sumner, Dmitry Pisarev, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Abraham Goldfaden, and Titu Maiorescu. After her are Francišak Bahuševič, Alexander Kovalevsky, Hermann Goetz, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Émile Lemoine, and Marko Kropyvnytskyi. Among people deceased in 1909, Helena Modjeska ranks 56. Before her are Rodolphe Lindt, Walther Ritz, Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, Alessandro Fortis, Paul Ranson, and Pascual Cervera y Topete. After her are Futabatei Shimei, Giuseppe Martucci, Harry Seeley, Eva Bonnier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, and Madan Lal Dhingra.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Helena Modjeska ranks 710 out of 1,694. Before her are Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Czesław Kiszczak (1925), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), and Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667). After her are Robert Gadocha (1946), Stanislaus Hosius (1504), Marek Janowski (1939), Richard Herrmann (1923), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), and Joanna Chmielewska (1932).

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Among ACTORS In Poland

Among actors born in Poland, Helena Modjeska ranks 23. Before her are Krystyna Janda (1952), Leo White (1882), Peter Berling (1934), Franciszek Pieczka (1928), Heinrich George (1893), and Bernhard Goetzke (1884). After her are Gisela Hahn (1943), Willy Fritsch (1901), Matthias Habich (1940), Leon Niemczyk (1923), Olga Desmond (1890), and Stanisław Mikulski (1929).

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