ACTOR

Sylvia Sidney

1910 - 1999

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Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow; August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Sidney has received more than 2,094,473 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Sylvia Sidney is the 1,627th most popular actor (up from 2,151st in 2019), the 2,701st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,531st in 2019) and the 760th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sylvia Sidney ranks 1,627 out of 13,578. Before her are Linda Kozlowski, Daliah Lavi, Paul Scofield, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Dubois, and Peter Boyle. After her are Cécile Aubry, Brigitte Lahaie, Burak Özçivit, Lorne Greene, Jim Kelly, and Jean Delannoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Sylvia Sidney ranks 106. Before her are Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ngô Đình Nhu, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Maria Cebotari, Heinz Hoffmann, and Dorothea Tanning. After her are Rudolf Kempe, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Félix Candela, Ruan Lingyu, Lothar Collatz, and Fritz Leiber. Among people deceased in 1999, Sylvia Sidney ranks 83. Before her are Phaedon Gizikis, Giant Baba, Michel Petrucciani, Peko Dapčević, Victor Mature, and Alf Ramsey. After her are Shankar Dayal Sharma, Ilmari Juutilainen, Joseph Heller, David Ogilvy, Aldo van Eyck, and Roy Chiao.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sylvia Sidney ranks 2,701 out of 20,380. Before her are Siri Hustvedt (1955), Kevin Federline (1978), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Peter Boyle (1935), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), and Jason Newsted (1963). After her are James Taylor (1948), Richard Brooks (1912), Annie Oakley (1860), Taylor Hackford (1944), Mickey Cohen (1913), and Elgin Baylor (1934).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Sylvia Sidney ranks 760. Before her are George Reeves (1914), Carolyn Jones (1930), Laura Linney (1964), Anna May Wong (1905), Linda Kozlowski (1958), and Peter Boyle (1935). After her are Jim Kelly (1946), Anne Archer (1947), Jo Van Fleet (1915), Nichelle Nichols (1932), Billy Drago (1945), and Perry King (1948).

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Television and Movie Roles

Beetlejuice
Juno
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Mar 30o 19887.385 / 10
Mars Attacks!
Grandma Norris
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Dec 13o 19966.4 / 10
Sabotage
Mrs. Verloc
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Jan 8o 19376.67 / 10