Actor

Vanity

1959 - 2016

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Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness compared to others. Prior to the 14th century, it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant considering one's own capabilities and that God's help was not needed, i.e. unjustified boasting; although glory is now seen as having a predominantly positive meaning, the Latin term from which it derives, gloria, roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Vanity is the 2,246th most popular actor (up from 7,921st in 2024), the 187th most popular biography from Canada (up from 678th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Canadian Actor.

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Among Actors

Among actors, Vanity ranks 2,246 out of 13,578Before her are Elizabeth McGovern, Dilip Kumar, Lupe Vélez, Susan Sullivan, Andrey Myagkov, and John Williams. After her are Nolan North, Timothy Hutton, Riz Ahmed, Sebastian Koch, Caterina Boratto, and Michael Sheen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Vanity ranks 142Before her are Renny Harlin, Saïd Aouita, Suzanne Vega, Anatoly Onoprienko, Nagarjuna, and Christian Thielemann. After her are Nicole Brown Simpson, Pietro Vierchowod, Baron Waqa, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Henry Czerny, and Jim Yong Kim. Among people deceased in 2016, Vanity ranks 192Before her are Papa Wemba, Zdravko Tolimir, Željko Čajkovski, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, and Jadranka Stojaković. After her are Guido Westerwelle, Silvana Pampanini, Silvio Gazzaniga, Georges Cottier, Susannah Mushatt Jones, and Patty Duke.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Vanity ranks 187 out of 1,622Before her are Christian Cage (1973), Brian Kernighan (1942), Evangeline Lilly (1979), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), and Alex Wilson (1905). After her are Maynard Ferguson (1928), Robert Langlands (1936), Bret Hart (1957), Henry Czerny (1959), John van 't Schip (1963), and Marie Dressler (1868).

Among Actors In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Vanity ranks 49Before her are Fay Wray (1907), Deanna Durbin (1921), Joanna Shimkus (1943), William B. Davis (1938), Lorne Greene (1915), and Evangeline Lilly (1979). After her are Henry Czerny (1959), Marie Dressler (1868), Katheryn Winnick (1977), Joseph Wiseman (1918), Hayden Christensen (1981), and Phil Hartman (1948).