ACTOR

William Zabka

1965 - Today

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William Michael Zabka (; born October 20, 1965) is an American actor. He portrayed Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and the TV series Cobra Kai (2018–present). Zabka's career took off with The Karate Kid, despite having no prior karate training. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Zabka has received more than 10,390,616 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). William Zabka is the 3,201st most popular actor (down from 1,722nd in 2019), the 4,835th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,892nd in 2019) and the 1,440th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, William Zabka ranks 3,201 out of 13,578Before him are Akira Terao, Gorden Kaye, Inger Stevens, Yūjirō Ishihara, Clémence Poésy, and Alice Krige. After him are Mark Addy, Josephine Hull, Tōru Furuya, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Rachel Ward, and Justin Theroux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, William Zabka ranks 142Before him are Dave Lombardo, Peter Jacobson, Juan Manuel Lillo, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Stefano Domenicali, and Paulina Porizkova. After him are Valérie Trierweiler, Velimir Perasović, Bryan Singer, Mathilda May, Joely Richardson, and Lennie James.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Zabka ranks 4,835 out of 20,380Before him are Jackie Wilson (1934), Robert Monroe (1915), Greg Mankiw (1958), Richard Petty (1937), Robert N. Bellah (1927), and Blackie Lawless (1956). After him are Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Oliver North (1943), Rafer Johnson (1935), Josephine Hull (1877), Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), and Dennis Dugan (1946).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, William Zabka ranks 1,440Before him are Tom Noonan (1951), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Sam Jaffe (1891), William Sanderson (1944), Stephen Collins (1947), and Ed Begley (1901). After him are Josephine Hull (1877), Justin Theroux (1971), Sam Wanamaker (1919), Michael Weatherly (1968), Richard Lynch (1940), and Fay Bainter (1893).