ACTOR

Jennifer Jones

1919 - 2009

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Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nominated for the Oscar five times, including one win for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jones worked as a model in her youth before transitioning to acting, appearing in two serial films in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jennifer Jones has received more than 3,730,919 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Jennifer Jones is the 630th most popular actor (down from 511th in 2019), the 1,158th most popular biography from United States (down from 959th in 2019) and the 313th most popular American Actor.

Jennifer Jones is most famous for her role in the 1944 film "The Song of Bernadette."

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jennifer Jones by language

Over the past year Jennifer Jones has had the most page views in the with 452,380 views, followed by Spanish (47,285), and German (27,555). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (78.82%), Irish (72.15%), and Cantonese (71.66%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jennifer Jones ranks 630 out of 13,578. Before her are Gena Rowlands, Jeremy Renner, Vincent Price, Tom Berenger, Ed Lauter, and Richard Barthelmess. After her are Rachel Weisz, Ian McDiarmid, Gong Li, Shia LaBeouf, Louis Jourdan, and Rita Moreno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Jennifer Jones ranks 38. Before her are Leon Festinger, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, César Manrique, James M. Buchanan, James Lovelock, and Mordechai Anielewicz. After her are Gillo Pontecorvo, Jackie Robinson, Pete Seeger, Georges Duby, Charles Sweeney, and Abdel Hakim Amer. Among people deceased in 2009, Jennifer Jones ranks 33. Before her are Jean Dausset, Maurice Druon, Jack Kemp, Robert F. Furchgott, Günther Rall, and João Bernardo Vieira. After her are Leszek Kołakowski, Juan Almeida Bosque, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Ephraim Katzir, Marek Edelman, and Hussein-Ali Montazeri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Jones ranks 1,158 out of 20,380. Before her are Harrison Schmitt (1935), Tom Berenger (1949), Vannevar Bush (1890), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Ed Lauter (1938), and Richard Barthelmess (1895). After her are Gina Haspel (1956), Richard Winters (1918), Lloyd Austin (1953), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Tom Morello (1964), and C. Wright Mills (1916).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jennifer Jones ranks 313. Before her are Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), Vincent Price (1911), Tom Berenger (1949), Ed Lauter (1938), and Richard Barthelmess (1895). After her are Shia LaBeouf (1986), Anjelica Huston (1951), Lisa Kudrow (1963), William Fichtner (1956), Sissy Spacek (1949), and Dwayne Johnson (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Towering Inferno
Lisolette
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Dec 14o 19747 / 10
The Song of Bernadette
Bernadette
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Dec 21o 19437 / 10
Duel in the Sun
Pearl Chavez
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Dec 31o 19466.4 / 10