ACTOR

Jean Simmons

1929 - 2010

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Jean Merilyn Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards. Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Simmons has received more than 6,219,096 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Jean Simmons is the 638th most popular actor (down from 413th in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 563rd in 2019) and the 96th most popular British Actor.

Jean Simmons is most famous for her roles in films such as Guys and Dolls, Spartacus, and Elmer Gantry.

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  • 6.2M

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  • 66.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jean Simmons ranks 638 out of 13,578Before her are Ian McDiarmid, Gong Li, Shia LaBeouf, Louis Jourdan, Rita Moreno, and Emmy Göring. After her are Richard Wilson, Song Hye-rim, Anjelica Huston, Julie Walters, Lisa Kudrow, and John Gielgud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jean Simmons ranks 78Before her are Albert Azaryan, Imelda Marcos, Mike Hawthorn, Andriyan Nikolayev, Abdel Halim Hafez, and Pierre Brice. After her are George Stinney, Hebe Camargo, Yozo Aoki, E. O. Wilson, Gerald Edelman, and Chadli Bendjedid. Among people deceased in 2010, Jean Simmons ranks 39Before her are Algirdas Brazauskas, Alice Miller, Vladimir Arnold, Henryk Górecki, Maria Kaczyńska, and Israel Tal. After her are James Black, Bekim Fehmiu, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Enzo Bearzot, Blake Edwards, and John Fenn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jean Simmons ranks 776 out of 8,785Before her are Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Rachel Weisz (1970), Ian McDiarmid (1944), Clementine Churchill (1885), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519). After her are Richard Wilson (1936), Ken Hensley (1945), Julie Walters (1950), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Gielgud (1904), and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Jean Simmons ranks 96Before her are Jude Law (1972), Alfred Molina (1953), Margaret Rutherford (1892), Bernard Hill (1944), Rachel Weisz (1970), and Ian McDiarmid (1944). After her are Richard Wilson (1936), Julie Walters (1950), John Gielgud (1904), Naomi Watts (1968), Tom Hardy (1977), and Tom Conti (1941).