ACTOR

Jenny McCarthy

1972 - Today

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Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg (née McCarthy; born November 1, 1972) is an American actress, model, and television personality. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then had a television and film acting career, beginning as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out (1995–1997) and afterwards starring in the eponymous sitcom Jenny (1997–1998), as well as films including BASEketball (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Dirty Love (2005), John Tucker Must Die (2006), and Santa Baby (2006). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jenny McCarthy has received more than 25,288,136 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jenny McCarthy is the 4,920th most popular actor (down from 4,561st in 2019), the 7,196th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,807th in 2019) and the 2,212th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jenny McCarthy ranks 4,920 out of 13,578Before her are Phoebe Cates, Miles Teller, Alison Arngrim, Moon Geun-young, Elçin Sangu, and Wolfgang Liebeneiner. After her are Rasim Balayev, Florence La Badie, Patricia Wettig, Katharine Houghton, Vincent Spano, and Ed Skrein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Jenny McCarthy ranks 173Before her are Junko Takeuchi, Craig Jones, Eli Cohen, Sergei Magnitsky, Joe Wright, and Ramon Menezes. After her are Tego Calderón, RedOne, Leonor Varela, Michael Lucas, Missi Pyle, and Markus Rühl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jenny McCarthy ranks 7,196 out of 20,380Before her are Jeane Dixon (1904), Meredith Baxter (1947), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Phoebe Cates (1963), Miles Teller (1987), and Alison Arngrim (1962). After her are Ken Carpenter (1913), Monte Hellman (1932), Florence La Badie (1888), Neal E. Miller (1909), Patricia Wettig (1951), and Harry Reid (1939).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jenny McCarthy ranks 2,212Before her are Susan Anspach (1942), Leslie Uggams (1943), Meredith Baxter (1947), Phoebe Cates (1963), Miles Teller (1987), and Alison Arngrim (1962). After her are Florence La Badie (1888), Patricia Wettig (1951), Katharine Houghton (1945), Vincent Spano (1962), Jocelyn Brando (1919), and Taylor Kinney (1981).