ACTOR

Olga Knipper

1868 - 1959

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Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (Russian: Ольга Леонардовна Книппер-Чехова; 21 September [O.S. 9 September] 1868 – 22 March 1959) was a Russian and Soviet stage actress. She was married to Anton Chekhov.Knipper was among the 39 original members of the Moscow Art Theatre when it was formed by Konstantin Stanislavski in 1898. She played Arkadina in The Seagull (1898), played Elena in the Moscow premiere of Uncle Vanya (1899), and was the first to play Masha in Three Sisters (1901) and Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard (1904). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olga Knipper has received more than 218,940 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Olga Knipper is the 937th most popular actor (down from 916th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from Russia (down from 479th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Olga Knippers by language

Over the past year Olga Knipper has had the most page views in the with 83,566 views, followed by English (29,624), and German (5,796). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (57.41%), Bengali (38.26%), and Udmurt (36.68%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Olga Knipper ranks 937 out of 13,578. Before her are John Turturro, Sebastian Shaw, Kenny Baker, Cesar Romero, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jesper Christensen. After her are Josephine Chaplin, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan Reynolds, Corinne Cléry, Audrey Tautou, and Catherine O'Hara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Olga Knipper ranks 56. Before her are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, James Brendan Connolly, Eleanor H. Porter, and Jane Avril. After her are Louis Couturat, Émile Chartier, Franz Ritter von Epp, Paul Otlet, Francis Jammes, and Ahmed Shawqi. Among people deceased in 1959, Olga Knipper ranks 36. Before her are Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Wanda Landowska, Rudolf Caracciola, Sidney Bechet, and Ethel Barrymore. After her are Edmond Debeaumarché, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, D. F. Malan, Ichirō Hatoyama, Barthélemy Boganda, and Cecil B. DeMille.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Knipper ranks 486 out of 3,761. Before her are Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), Filipp Golikov (1900), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Edith Södergran (1892), Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), and Prince Albert of Prussia (1809). After her are Valentin Pavlov (1937), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Vera Zasulich (1849), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), and Viktor Suvorov (1947).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Olga Knipper ranks 7. Before her are Yul Brynner (1920), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Michael Chekhov (1891), Lila Kedrova (1918), Sacha Guitry (1885), and Yuri Nikulin (1921). After her are Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Yury Solomin (1935), Lyubov Orlova (1902), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), and George Sanders (1906).

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Television and Movie Roles

Tomorrow Night
On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death.
Dec 31o 19300 / 10
Cinema in Russia
Archive footage
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Aug 27o 19794 / 10