ACTOR

Oona O'Neill

1925 - 1991

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Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was a Bermudian-born actress, the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. O'Neill's parents divorced when she was four years old, after which she was raised by her mother in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and rarely saw her father. She first came to the public eye during her time at the Brearley School in New York City between 1940 and 1942, when she was photographed attending fashionable nightclubs with her friends Carol Marcus and Gloria Vanderbilt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oona O'Neill has received more than 6,613,809 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Oona O'Neill is the 338th most popular actor (up from 424th in 2019), the most popular biography from Bermuda and the most popular Bermudian Actor.

Oona O'Neill was the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and actress Carlotta Monterey. She is most famous for being the inspiration for the character of Daisy in her father's play "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

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  • 6.6M

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  • 65.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Oona O'Neill ranks 338 out of 13,578. Before her are Matthew Perry, Val Kilmer, Martin Landau, Cary Grant, Charles Dance, and Joan Crawford. After her are Robert Hossein, Penélope Cruz, Harold Ramis, David Niven, Chris Hemsworth, and Michèle Mercier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Oona O'Neill ranks 37. Before her are Gabriele Amorth, Simon van der Meer, Frantz Fanon, Ernst Happel, Paul Mauriat, and Peter Brook. After her are Pierre Boulez, Bert Hellinger, Gerald Durrell, George Kennedy, Sam Peckinpah, and Maya Plisetskaya. Among people deceased in 1991, Oona O'Neill ranks 23. Before her are Graham Greene, Lazar Kaganovich, Frank Capra, Michael Landon, Marcel Lefebvre, and Rajiv Gandhi. After her are Arno Breker, Margot Fonteyn, Henri Lefebvre, David Lean, Natalia Ginzburg, and Max Frisch.

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In Bermuda

Among people born in Bermuda, Oona O'Neill ranks 1 out of 8. After her are Lena Headey (1973), Diana Douglas (1923), Earl Cameron (1917), Heather Nova (1967), Shaun Goater (1970), Flora Duffy (1987), Nahki Wells (1990), and Hiroki Ito (null).

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Among ACTORS In Bermuda

Among actors born in Bermuda, Oona O'Neill ranks 1. After her are Lena Headey (1973), Diana Douglas (1923), and Earl Cameron (1917).

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