ACTOR

Shelley Winters

1920 - 2006

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Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture. She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shelley Winters has received more than 5,580,944 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Shelley Winters is the 622nd most popular actor (down from 510th in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from United States (down from 958th in 2019) and the 305th most popular American Actor.

Shelley Winters was most famous for her roles in the films A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita, and The Poseidon Adventure.

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  • 5.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Shelley Winters ranks 622 out of 13,578. Before her are Richard S. Castellano, Hardy Krüger, Bernard Hill, James Cagney, Cornel Wilde, and Pierre Brice. After her are Steve Reeves, Gena Rowlands, Jeremy Renner, Vincent Price, Tom Berenger, and Ed Lauter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Shelley Winters ranks 51. Before her are George Porter, Prem Tinsulanonda, Baruj Benacerraf, Chiara Lubich, E. Donnall Thomas, and Lawrence Klein. After her are Walter Nowotny, George Armitage Miller, P. D. James, Dave Brubeck, Ovadia Yosef, and Maureen O'Hara. Among people deceased in 2006, Shelley Winters ranks 51. Before her are Nam June Paik, Claude Jade, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Steve Irwin, Gordon Parks, and William Styron. After her are Gillo Pontecorvo, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Romano Mussolini, Mariska Veres, Karel Appel, and Ta Mok.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 1,145 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Cooley (1864), George H. Hitchings (1905), Jean Webster (1876), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794), and Edith Wharton (1862). After her are Steve Reeves (1926), Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), George Carlin (1937), Vincent Price (1911), and Stan Getz (1927).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 305. Before her are Shelley Duvall (1949), James Gandolfini (1961), Jim Belushi (1954), Stanley Tucci (1960), Richard S. Castellano (1933), and James Cagney (1899). After her are Steve Reeves (1926), Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), Vincent Price (1911), Tom Berenger (1949), and Ed Lauter (1938).

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