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Melina Mercouri

1920 - 1994

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Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a political family that was prominent over multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melina Mercouri has received more than 1,014,824 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Melina Mercouri is the 206th most popular actor (up from 226th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Greece (up from 115th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Greek Actor.

Melina Mercouri was a Greek actress and politician. She is most famous for her role in the movie "Zorba the Greek."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Melina Mercouri ranks 206 out of 13,578. Before her are Jeanne Moreau, Annie Girardot, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Suchet, Rock Hudson, and Mickey Rourke. After her are Isabelle Adjani, Olivia de Havilland, Ryan O'Neal, Pierre Richard, Martin Sheen, and Vanessa Redgrave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Melina Mercouri ranks 14. Before her are Ray Bradbury, Farouk of Egypt, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Paul Celan, Mario Puzo, and Owen Chamberlain. After her are Gianni Rodari, Frank Herbert, Amália Rodrigues, Boris Vian, Traudl Junge, and Éric Rohmer. Among people deceased in 1994, Melina Mercouri ranks 18. Before her are Giulietta Masina, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Burt Lancaster, Andrei Chikatilo, and Harry Nilsson. After her are Kurt Cobain, Mas Oyama, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Léon Degrelle, Paul Feyerabend, and Jan Tinbergen.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Melina Mercouri ranks 107 out of 1,024. Before her are Nestor (null), Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882), Diotima of Mantinea (-450), John V Palaiologos (1332), Melissus of Samos (-470), and Eleftherios Venizelos (1864). After her are Necho II (-625), Arion (-700), Polycrates (-600), Scopas (-395), Pheidippides (-600), and Phaedrus (-20).

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Among ACTORS In Greece

Among actors born in Greece, Melina Mercouri ranks 2. Before her are Irene Papas (1929). After her are Thespis (-600), Katina Paxinou (1900), John Aniston (1933), Aliki Vougiouklaki (1934), Skeet Ulrich (1970), Carl Anderson (1945), Adele Neuhauser (1959), Ariane Labed (1984), and Haruna Ikezawa (1975).

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Television and Movie Roles

Topkapi
Elizabeth Lipp
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
Sep 2o 19646.4 / 10
Never on Sunday
Ilya
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
May 24o 19606.8 / 10
Stella
Stella
The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.
Apr 4o 19556.69 / 10