ACTOR

Joan Allen

1956 - Today

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Joan Allen is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, she has received a Tony Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1977, won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for And a Nightingale Sang, and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Allen has received more than 5,021,701 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Joan Allen is the 1,062nd most popular actor (up from 1,202nd in 2019), the 1,852nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,145th in 2019) and the 501st most popular American Actor.

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  • 5.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joan Allen ranks 1,062 out of 13,578. Before her are Keira Knightley, Richard Schiff, Emmanuelle Seigner, Daniel Radcliffe, Shilpa Shetty, and Frances Fisher. After her are Liam Hemsworth, Loretta Young, Bernard Lee, Yaphet Kotto, Tommy Wiseau, and Agnes Moorehead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Joan Allen ranks 60. Before her are Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, Joe Satriani, David Sassoli, Stevie Young, Bidzina Ivanishvili, and Michele Alboreto. After her are Thomas N'Kono, Jan Peter Balkenende, Adnan Oktar, Almazbek Atambayev, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, and Dave Murray.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Allen ranks 1,852 out of 20,380. Before her are Paul Desmond (1924), Michael Bay (1965), Frederick Cook (1865), Tom Courtney (1933), Adelaide Hall (1901), and Jasper Johns (1930). After her are Loretta Young (1913), Isamu Noguchi (1904), Yaphet Kotto (1939), Carole King (1942), Agnes Moorehead (1900), and Dave Bautista (1969).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joan Allen ranks 501. Before her are Marcheline Bertrand (1950), Wallace Shawn (1943), Dean Cain (1966), Mary Steenburgen (1953), Marcia Cross (1962), and Richard Schiff (1955). After her are Loretta Young (1913), Yaphet Kotto (1939), Agnes Moorehead (1900), Kathryn Joosten (1939), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (1966), and Stacy Keach (1941).

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