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Madeleine Carroll

1906 - 1987

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Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress. Carroll is remembered for starring in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) where she originated the "ice cold blonde" role in Hitchcock films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madeleine Carroll has received more than 813,020 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Madeleine Carroll is the 3,179th most popular actor (down from 3,001st in 2019), the 2,724th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,669th in 2019) and the 397th most popular British Actor.

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  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Madeleine Carroll ranks 3,179 out of 9,996Before her are Werner Klemperer, Jim Hutton, Patsy Kensit, Lulu, Art Carney, and Yevgeny Morgunov. After her are Kōji Yakusho, Kyle Chandler, Ken Ogata, Dick Powell, Jimmy Fallon, and Kathryn Morris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Madeleine Carroll ranks 203Before her are Renato Cesarini, Max August Zorn, Maurice Sachs, Laurens van der Post, Roman Karmen, and Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After her are Betti Alver, Walter Legge, Penn Nouth, S. D. Burman, Martí Ventolrà, and Alexandre Trauner. Among people deceased in 1987, Madeleine Carroll ranks 141Before her are Bronisława Wajs, Viktor Nekrasov, M. G. Ramachandran, Richard Marquand, Gioacchino Colombo, and Arne Borg. After her are Kristjan Palusalu, Woody Herman, Conny Plank, Georg Muche, Arturo Torres Carrasco, and Ray Bolger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Madeleine Carroll ranks 2,724 out of 7,765Before her are John Peel (1939), Paul Simonon (1955), Caroline Munro (1949), Brendan Rodgers (1973), Patsy Kensit (1968), and Lulu (1948). After her are Robert Hugh Benson (1871), Graham Sutherland (1903), Geoff Emerick (1945), Edmund Goulding (1891), Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443), and Gary Hocking (1937).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Madeleine Carroll ranks 397Before her are Dan Stevens (1982), Cathleen Nesbitt (1888), Dougray Scott (1965), Caroline Munro (1949), Patsy Kensit (1968), and Lulu (1948). After her are Edward Woodward (1930), Robert Stephens (1931), C. Aubrey Smith (1863), Joseph Morgan (1981), Flora Robson (1902), and Nicol Williamson (1936).

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