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Anna May Wong

1905 - 1961

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Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio. Born in Los Angeles to second-generation Taishanese Chinese American parents, Wong became engrossed in films and decided at the age of 11 that she would become an actress. Her first role was as an extra in the movie The Red Lantern (1919). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna May Wong is the 1,730th most popular actor (down from 1,617th in 2019), the 3,172nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,691st in 2019) and the 843rd most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna May Wong ranks 1,730 out of 13,578. Before her are Tom Sizemore, Sara Ramirez, Elya Baskin, Nancy Marchand, Hugh Fraser, and Anne Schedeen. After her are Renée Simonot, Fionnula Flanagan, Sean Harris, Izabella Scorupco, Jaya Bachchan, and Tatiana Samoilova.

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Among people born in 1905, Anna May Wong ranks 111. Before her are Robert Stevenson, Jean Daniélou, Gerhard Klopfer, Mikio Naruse, John Lyng, and Bruno Rossi. After her are Louis Harold Gray, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Maria von Trapp, Pierre Klossowski, Wanda Wasilewska, and Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff. Among people deceased in 1961, Anna May Wong ranks 51. Before her are Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Clark Ashton Smith, Domenico Tardini, Shigeko Higashikuni, Gustav Ucicky, and Henri Breuil. After her are Thomas Beecham, Nicola Canali, Maya Deren, Paul Ramadier, Grandma Moses, and Herbert Pitman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anna May Wong ranks 3,172 out of 20,380. Before her are Alice Walton (1949), William Masters (1915), Anne Schedeen (1949), Larry Sanger (1968), Donna Karan (1948), and Marshall Harvey Stone (1903). After her are Elizabeth Loftus (1944), Tommie Smith (1944), John Fetterman (1969), David Berkowitz (1953), Brenda Lee (1944), and Edsel Ford (1893).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Anna May Wong ranks 843. Before her are Jeffrey Tambor (1944), Chris Sarandon (1942), Harry Reems (1947), Tom Sizemore (1961), Nancy Marchand (1928), and Anne Schedeen (1949). After her are George Chakiris (1934), Frederic Forrest (1936), Téa Leoni (1966), Christina Applegate (1971), Patricia Clarkson (1959), and Bo Derek (1956).

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