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Adrienne Lecouvreur

1692 - 1730

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Adrienne Lecouvreur (5 April 1692 – 20 March 1730), born Adrienne Couvreur, was a French actress, considered by many as the greatest of her time. Born in Damery, she first appeared professionally on the stage in Lille. After her Paris debut at the Comédie-Française in 1717, she was immensely popular with the public. Together with Michel Baron, she was credited for having developed a more natural, less stylized, type of acting. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrienne Lecouvreur is the 1,204th most popular actor (down from 1,137th in 2019), the 1,828th most popular biography from France (up from 1,856th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 1,204 out of 13,578. Before her are Jan-Michael Vincent, Julia Ormond, Ricardo Montalbán, Vinnie Jones, Marie Trintignant, and Ernie Hudson. After her are Marisa Berenson, Anthony Daniels, Sarah Rose Karr, Luke Perry, Marcia Cross, and Sessue Hayakawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1692, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 7. Before her are Giuseppe Tartini, Elisabeth Farnese, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Louisa Maria Stuart, and Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon. After her are Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Alessandro Albani, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, James Stirling, Joseph Butler, and Dolly Pentreath. Among people deceased in 1730, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 9. Before her are Frederick IV of Denmark, Leonardo Vinci, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Jakob Ammann, and Árni Magnússon. After her are Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Hans Hermann von Katte, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, and Patrona Halil.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 1,828 out of 6,770. Before her are Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Pierre Nora (1931), Nicolas Anelka (1979), Pierre Charron (1541), and Henri Pitot (1695). After her are Remy de Gourmont (1858), Marisa Berenson (1947), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Eugène Carrière (1849), Miou-Miou (1950), and Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 88. Before her are Michel Bouquet (1925), Claude Gensac (1927), Audrey Tautou (1976), Lambert Wilson (1958), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), and Marie Trintignant (1962). After her are Marisa Berenson (1947), Miou-Miou (1950), Brigitte Fossey (1946), Corinne Cléry (1950), Claude Brasseur (1936), and Jean Dujardin (1972).

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