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Madeline Kahn

1942 - 1999

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Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, and singer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madeline Kahn has received more than 7,819,306 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Madeline Kahn is the 3,014th most popular actor (up from 3,478th in 2019), the 4,591st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,359th in 2019) and the 1,363rd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Madeline Kahn ranks 3,014 out of 13,578. Before her are Patricia Velásquez, Li Li-hua, Maribel Verdú, Tom Mix, Kiyoshi Atsumi, and Timothy Olyphant. After her are Clifton James, Josiane Balasko, Stephen Tobolowsky, Murray Hamilton, Ben Miller, and John McCook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Madeline Kahn ranks 315. Before her are John Thaw, Pamela Tiffin, Andrew Robinson, Bo Hopkins, Michael G. Wilson, and Reinhard Mey. After her are Sergio Ramírez, Willis Reed, Bo Johansson, Jon Finch, Al Jardine, and Eduard Markarov. Among people deceased in 1999, Madeline Kahn ranks 138. Before her are Susan Strasberg, Taheyya Kariokka, Ian Bannen, Igor M. Diakonoff, Maxim Munzuk, and Louis Boyer. After her are Umberto Maglioli, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, František Vláčil, Rudi Glöckner, Alfred Raoul, and Harvey Postlethwaite.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Madeline Kahn ranks 4,591 out of 20,380. Before her are Michael V. Gazzo (1923), Aidan Quinn (1959), Tom Mix (1880), Carmine Appice (1946), Robert W. Chambers (1865), and Timothy Olyphant (1968). After her are Clifton James (1920), Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Murray Hamilton (1923), Grace Coolidge (1879), Emile Ardolino (1943), and Armand Hammer (1898).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Madeline Kahn ranks 1,363. Before her are John Carroll Lynch (1963), Chris Farley (1964), Michael V. Gazzo (1923), Aidan Quinn (1959), Tom Mix (1880), and Timothy Olyphant (1968). After her are Clifton James (1920), Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Murray Hamilton (1923), John McCook (1944), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), and Keith David (1956).

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Television and Movie Roles

A Bug's Life
Gypsy Moth (voice)
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
Nov 25th 19987 / 10
Clue
Mrs. White
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Dec 13th 19857.2 / 10
Young Frankenstein
Elizabeth
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Dec 15th 19747.9 / 10