ACTOR

Norma Shearer

1902 - 1983

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Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norma Shearer has received more than 2,925,947 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Norma Shearer is the 1,186th most popular actor (down from 1,162nd in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Canada (down from 91st in 2019) and the 27th most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Norma Shearers by language

Over the past year Norma Shearer has had the most page views in the with 369,821 views, followed by German (39,541), and Spanish (16,546). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (172.51%), Urdu (128.24%), and Asturian (59.59%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Norma Shearer ranks 1,186 out of 13,578. Before her are Christian Oliver, Brittany Murphy, Martin Weinek, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Eleanor Parker, and Tina Aumont. After her are Tim Allen, Rajesh Khanna, Marisa Tomei, Ashley Judd, Lin Shaye, and Concha Velasco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Norma Shearer ranks 82. Before her are Wifredo Lam, Langston Hughes, Lyubov Orlova, Charan Singh, Alfredo Binda, and Anatole Litvak. After her are Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Maurice Duruflé, Hans Bellmer, Jean Rey, and Giuseppe Pella. Among people deceased in 1983, Norma Shearer ranks 52. Before her are Germaine Tailleferre, Robert Aldrich, Nicolaus von Below, Walther Nehring, Kurt Tank, and Karen Carpenter. After her are Marianne Brandt, Horst Schumann, Victor Turner, Dennis Wilson, Walter Stennes, and Igor Markevitch.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Norma Shearer ranks 97 out of 1,622. Before her are Michael Ironside (1950), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Wayne Gretzky (1961), Norman Bethune (1890), Jack L. Warner (1892), and Rudolph A. Marcus (1923). After her are Nathan Fillion (1971), Marc Ouellet (1944), Louis Slotin (1910), Maurice Richard (1921), David Morrell (1943), and Jacques Villeneuve (1971).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Norma Shearer ranks 27. Before her are Geneviève Bujold (1942), Shannon Tweed (1957), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Victor Garber (1949), Martin Short (1950), and Michael Ironside (1950). After her are Nathan Fillion (1971), Rachel McAdams (1978), Margot Kidder (1948), Deanna Durbin (1921), Walter Huston (1883), and Rick Moranis (1953).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Divorcee
Jerry Martin
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Apr 19o 19306.3 / 10
The Women
Mary Haines
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Sep 1o 19397 / 10
He Who Gets Slapped
Consuelo
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.
Dec 22o 19247.624 / 10