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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). 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 5,152,401 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Shelley Winters is the 510th most popular actor (up from 548th in 2019), the 958th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,023rd in 2019) and the 258th 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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  • 5.2M

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  • 62.40

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Shelley Winters ranks 510 out of 9,996Before her are Natalie Portman, Marie Laforêt, Ali MacGraw, Pierre Brice, Scott Glenn, and Robert Carlyle. After her are Jennifer Jones, Carl Weathers, Mel Ferrer, Gert Fröbe, Horst Buchholz, and Mark Wahlberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Shelley Winters ranks 40Before her are Clarice Lispector, Gene Tierney, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Mickey Rooney, Fritz Walter, and Timothy Leary. After her are Dave Brubeck, Alberto Sordi, Sergei Bondarchuk, Michèle Morgan, Kaysone Phomvihane, and Sun Myung Moon. Among people deceased in 2006, Shelley Winters ranks 38Before her are Lennart Meri, Alexander Litvinenko, Jack Palance, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Muriel Spark, and Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. After her are Bülent Ecevit, Nam June Paik, Melvin Schwartz, Alida Valli, Telmo Zarra, and P. W. Botha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 958 out of 18,182Before her are Don Cherry (1936), Dr. Dre (1965), John Sherman (1823), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Scott Glenn (1939), and James M. Buchanan (1919). After her are Jennifer Jones (1919), Richard Rorty (1931), Daniel Dennett (1942), Murray Rothbard (1926), Carl Weathers (1948), and Mel Ferrer (1917).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 258Before her are Jennifer Connelly (1970), William Hurt (1950), Louise Fletcher (1934), Forest Whitaker (1961), Ali MacGraw (1939), and Scott Glenn (1939). After her are Jennifer Jones (1919), Carl Weathers (1948), Mel Ferrer (1917), Mark Wahlberg (1971), Gena Rowlands (1930), and Winona Ryder (1971).

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