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Nanette Fabray

1920 - 2018

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Nanette Fabray (born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares; October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed for her role in High Button Shoes (1947) and winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life. In the mid-1950s, she served as Sid Caesar's comic partner on Caesar's Hour, for which she won three Emmy Awards, and appeared with Fred Astaire in the film musical The Band Wagon. From 1979 to 1984, she played Katherine Romano, the mother of lead character Ann Romano, on the TV series One Day at a Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2024). Nanette Fabray is the 9,305th most popular actor (down from 8,710th in 2024), the 13,984th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,845th in 2019) and the 4,335th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Nanette Fabray ranks 9,305 out of 13,578. Before her are Edmund Lowe, Tsukasa Aoi, Charlie Schlatter, Kang Tae-oh, Táňa Fischerová, and Ian Harding. After her are Justina Machado, Lenna Kuurmaa, Chun Woo-hee, Abigail Spencer, Luke Bracey, and Patrick Gallagher.

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Among people born in 1920, Nanette Fabray ranks 450. Before her are Veerasamy Ringadoo, Barbara Britton, Walter Frederick Morrison, Satish Dhawan, Tony Gaze, and Paul Frees. After her are Jerry Maren, Ronald Searle, Sitara Devi, Mitzi Green, Frances Gifford, and Jack Webb. Among people deceased in 2018, Nanette Fabray ranks 569. Before her are Kitty O'Neil, Kate Spade, Armand de Las Cuevas, Oksana Shachko, Yuriy Tyukalov, and Celeste Yarnall. After her are Saleh Ali al-Sammad, Kuldip Nayar, Javier Otxoa, Dennis Edwards, Jerry Maren, and Christopher Lawford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nanette Fabray ranks 13,988 out of 20,380. Before her are James Toney (1968), Charlie Schlatter (1966), Rob Minkoff (1962), Joel Surnow (1955), Terry Balsamo (1972), and Chris Webber (1973). After her are Fred Allen (1894), Cheryl Strayed (1968), Justina Machado (1972), Philip Freneau (1752), Pauli Murray (1910), and Abigail Spencer (1981).

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Among actors born in United States, Nanette Fabray ranks 4,337. Before her are Brittany Snow (1986), Emma Myers (2002), Sydney Penny (1971), Gail Fisher (1935), Edmund Lowe (1890), and Charlie Schlatter (1966). After her are Justina Machado (1972), Abigail Spencer (1981), David Giuntoli (1980), Jennifer Rubin (1962), Peter Scolari (1955), and Joy Bryant (1974).

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