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Jayne Meadows

1919 - 2015

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Jayne Meadows (born Jane Cotter; September 27, 1919 – April 26, 2015) was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career and was the wife of original Tonight Show host Steve Allen. She is the elder sister of actress, banker, and memoirist Audrey Meadows. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Jayne Meadows is the 8,908th most popular actor (up from 9,101st in 2024), the 1,088th most popular biography from China (up from 1,095th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Chinese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jayne Meadows ranks 8,908 out of 13,578Before her are Ai Orikasa, Go Kyung-pyo, Angela Jones, Jamie Bamber, Olivia Cooke, and Yūko Miyamura. After her are Carla Peterson, Vidyut Jammwal, Veda Ann Borg, Daniela Melchior, Mikako Ichikawa, and Robbie Amell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Jayne Meadows ranks 346Before her are Alexander Courage, Gretchen Fraser, Kaifi Azmi, Marie Windsor, Stanley Middleton, and George Avakian. After her are John Houbolt, Mason Adams, Wally Hickel, Shamshad Begum, Steve Brodie, and Janet Waldo. Among people deceased in 2015, Jayne Meadows ranks 517Before her are Mel Daniels, Charles Correa, Raúl Héctor Castro, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Gene Fullmer, and Chris Welp. After her are Philip Levine, George Clayton Johnson, Maria Radner, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Alberto Nisman, and Lucjan Lis.

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In China

Among people born in China, Jayne Meadows ranks 1,088 out of 1,610Before her are Guo Jianmei (1961), Han Geng (1984), Xu Haifeng (1957), Zhao Liying (1987), Zou Shiming (1981), and Lay Zhang (1991). After her are Xu Jinglei (1974), Tie Ning (1957), Wang Xiaoshuai (1966), Woeser (1966), Gao Yuanyuan (1979), and Huang Zitao (1993).

Among ACTORS In China

Among actors born in China, Jayne Meadows ranks 77Before her are Raymond Lam (1979), Zhang Jingchu (1980), Wu Jing (1974), Luo Yunxi (1988), Victoria Song (1987), and Zhao Liying (1987). After her are Xu Jinglei (1974), Gao Yuanyuan (1979), Huang Zitao (1993), Vincent Zhao (1972), Zhang Jin (1974), and Chen Kun (1976).