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Luise Rainer

1910 - 2014

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Luise Rainer ( RY-nər, German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ]; 12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German-born film actress. She was the first thespian to win multiple Academy Awards, and the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday, she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient (and the longest-lived female star from Classic Hollywood), a superlative that has not been exceeded, as of 2024. Rainer started her acting career in Germany at age 16, under the tutelage of Austria's leading stage director, Max Reinhardt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luise Rainer has received more than 1,314,526 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Luise Rainer is the 582nd most popular actor (up from 996th in 2019), the 920th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,470th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Actor.

Luise Rainer is most famous for being the first person to win two Academy Awards for acting.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Luise Rainer ranks 582 out of 13,578. Before her are Gary Sinise, Ed O'Neill, Groucho Marx, Maurice Ronet, Milena Dravić, and Emma, Lady Hamilton. After her are Michael Chekhov, Claude Jade, Deborah Kerr, Michelle Phillips, Steve Carell, and Brian Dennehy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Luise Rainer ranks 44. Before her are Benzion Netanyahu, Meša Selimović, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Diosdado Macapagal, Edda Mussolini, and Paul Flory. After her are Edvard Kardelj, Pierre Schaeffer, António de Spínola, Ne Win, Momofuku Ando, and Erich Kempka. Among people deceased in 2014, Luise Rainer ranks 40. Before her are Masaru Emoto, Maya Angelou, Daniel Keyes, Dobrica Ćosić, Mickey Rooney, and Karlheinz Böhm. After her are P. D. James, Yozo Aoki, Maurice Duverger, Veljko Kadijević, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Gyula Grosics.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Luise Rainer ranks 920 out of 7,253. Before her are Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), Leo Strauss (1899), Hans Sachs (1494), Hans Scholl (1918), Albert of Saxony (1828), and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818). After her are Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Julius Schreck (1898), Theodor Billroth (1829), Emil Maurice (1897), and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Luise Rainer ranks 11. Before her are Magda Schneider (1909), Udo Kier (1944), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Nastassja Kinski (1961), and Hildegard Knef (1925). After her are Horst Buchholz (1933), Hardy Krüger (1928), Emmy Göring (1893), Gert Fröbe (1913), Karin Schubert (1944), and Lale Andersen (1905).

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