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Hedy Lamarr

1914 - 2000

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Hedy Lamarr (; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Lamarr became a film star with her performance in the romantic drama Algiers (1938). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hedy Lamarr is the 56th most popular actor (up from 80th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 49th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Actor.

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. She is most famous for her role in the film "Ecstasy" and for inventing a frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedoes.

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Among actors, Hedy Lamarr ranks 56 out of 13,578. Before her are Shah Rukh Khan, Ingrid Bergman, Catherine Deneuve, Harrison Ford, Chuck Norris, and Anthony Quinn. After her are Meryl Streep, Toshiro Mifune, Alan Rickman, Will Smith, Liam Neeson, and Vivien Leigh.

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Among people born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr ranks 4. Before her are Yuri Andropov, Louis de Funès, and Raymond Davis Jr.. After her are Tove Jansson, Alan Hodgkin, Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, and Julio Cortázar. Among people deceased in 2000, Hedy Lamarr ranks 2. Before her is Hafez al-Assad. After her are Ingrid of Sweden, Willard Van Orman Quine, Władysław Szpilman, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Habib Bourguiba, Emil Zátopek, Arkan, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, and Louis Néel.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 43 out of 1,424. Before her are Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Herbert von Karajan (1908), Egon Schiele (1890), Konrad Lorenz (1903), and Viktor Frankl (1905). After her are Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557), Otto of Greece (1815), Friedrich Hayek (1899), and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Hedy Lamarr ranks 3. Before her are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), and Romy Schneider (1938). After her are Christoph Waltz (1956), Maximilian Schell (1930), Helmut Berger (1944), Maria Schell (1926), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), Katharina Schratt (1853), Oskar Werner (1922), Martin Weinek (1964), and Senta Berger (1941).

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