ACTOR

Linda Bassett

1950 - Today

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Linda Bassett (born 4 February 1950) is an English actress. Her television credits include Victoria Wood's dinnerladies (1999), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–11), Grandma's House (2010–12) and Call the Midwife (2015–present). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Linda Bassett has received more than 1,531,803 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Linda Bassett is the 10,231st most popular actor, the 6,520th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 1,133rd most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Linda Bassett ranks 10,231 out of 13,578. Before her are Tamer Hassan, Tómas Lemarquis, Angela Bettis, Tina Ambani, Ken Duken, and Lisa Loeb. After her are Aya Cash, Dascha Polanco, Steve Blum, Olga Fonda, Pavel Derevyanko, and Mélanie Doutey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Linda Bassett ranks 731. Before her are Charles Krauthammer, Pawan Kumar Chamling, Phoebe Snow, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Todd McCarthy, and Nasirul Mulk. After her are Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tom Alter, Khandu Wangchuk, Goutam Ghose, Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, and Winston E. Scott.

Others Born in 1950

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Linda Bassett ranks 6,520 out of 8,785. Before her are Colin Jackson (1967), Tom Bateman (1989), Mark Lawrenson (1957), Leslie Ward (1851), Tamer Hassan (1968), and Cal Crutchlow (1985). After her are Tom Heaton (1986), Michael Gove (1967), Matt Ridley (1958), Willie Ormond (1927), Ken Downing (1917), and David Gyasi (1980).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Linda Bassett ranks 1,133. Before her are Nicholas Bishop (1973), Dakota Blue Richards (1994), Dennis Waterman (1948), Charles Mesure (1970), Tom Bateman (1989), and Tamer Hassan (1968). After her are David Gyasi (1980), Jamie Waylett (1989), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (1986), Tim Minchin (1975), Ben Elton (1959), and Freddie Stroma (1987).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Hours
Nelly Boxall
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Dec 27th 20027.276 / 10
The Reader
Ms. Brenner
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Dec 10th 20087.472 / 10
East Is East
Ella Khan
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
May 14th 19996.5 / 10