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Lynn Fontanne

1887 - 1983

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Lynn Fontanne (; 6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in the West End, she met the American actor Alfred Lunt, whom she married in 1922 and with whom she co-starred in Broadway and West End productions over the next four decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lynn Fontanne has received more than 325,620 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Lynn Fontanne is the 6,518th most popular actor (up from 6,640th in 2019), the 4,742nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,732nd in 2019) and the 773rd most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lynn Fontanne ranks 6,518 out of 9,996Before her are Ralph Lewis, Im Soo-jung, Mackenzie Davis, Leatrice Joy, Jane Krakowski, and Zoltán Várkonyi. After her are Margarita Levieva, Fyvush Finkel, William Keighley, Marie Osborne Yeats, Jason Acuña, and Kristen Johnston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Lynn Fontanne ranks 242Before her are Väinö Siikaniemi, Kate Gillou, Joseph Lamb, Karl Taylor Compton, Victor d'Arcy, and William Frawley. After her are Nils Granfelt, Gustaf Rosenquist, Monte Blue, Clive Brook, Joseph Plunkett, and Roland Young. Among people deceased in 1983, Lynn Fontanne ranks 222Before her are Merle Travis, Lutz Eigendorf, Derek J. de Solla Price, Billy Fury, Bjarne Pettersen, and Margaret Oakley Dayhoff. After her are Sabino Bilbao, Eubie Blake, Constantino Urbieta Sosa, Pedro Quartucci, Kai Winding, and Frank Forde.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lynn Fontanne ranks 4,742 out of 7,765Before her are Harry Lloyd (1983), Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947), William Kirby (1759), Jet Harris (1939), Mike Hodges (1932), and C. V. Boys (1855). After her are John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958), Brian Naylor (1923), Alex Pettyfer (1990), Ray Cooper (1947), and Clive Donner (1926).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Lynn Fontanne ranks 773Before her are Kenneth Connor (1918), Spottiswoode Aitken (1868), Hattie Jacques (1922), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990), Sonya Walger (1974), and Harry Lloyd (1983). After her are Alex Pettyfer (1990), Muriel Pavlow (1921), Lionel Atwill (1885), Keith Allen (1953), Ruth Wilson (1982), and Craig Ferguson (1962).

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