ACTOR

Vivien Leigh

1913 - 1967

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Vivien Leigh ( LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vivien Leigh has received more than 13,077,500 page views. Her biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Vivien Leigh is the 38th most popular actor (down from 32nd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from India (down from 10th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Actor.

Vivien Leigh is most famous for playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

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  • 13M

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  • 75.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vivien Leigh ranks 38 out of 13,578. Before her are Yul Brynner, Morgan Freeman, Gina Lollobrigida, Terence Hill, Harrison Ford, and Jean Reno. After her are Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Cage, Vin Diesel, and Shah Rukh Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Vivien Leigh ranks 4. Before her are Richard Nixon, Albert Camus, and Gerald Ford. After her are Menachem Begin, Willy Brandt, Rosa Parks, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Josef Bican, Claude Simon, and Jesse Owens. Among people deceased in 1967, Vivien Leigh ranks 5. Before her are Che Guevara, J. Robert Oppenheimer, René Magritte, and Konrad Adenauer. After her are Puyi, Casimir Funk, Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, and Spencer Tracy.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vivien Leigh ranks 13 out of 1,861. Before her are Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), and Ramakrishna (1836). After her are Nagarjuna (150), Shivaji (1627), Mahavira (-599), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Indira Gandhi (1917), and Rudyard Kipling (1865).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Vivien Leigh ranks 2. Before her are Amitabh Bachchan (1942). After her are Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Aishwarya Rai (1973), Salman Khan (1965), Julie Christie (1940), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), Akshay Kumar (1967), Ajay Devgn (1969), Dharmendra (1935), Shilpa Shetty (1975), and Amrish Puri (1932).

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Television and Movie Roles

Gone with the Wind
Scarlett O'Hara
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Mar 12o 19397.957 / 10
A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois
A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
Sep 19o 19517.633 / 10
Waterloo Bridge
Myra
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
May 17o 19407.493 / 10