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Jennifer Jones

1919 - 2009

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Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jones worked as a model in her youth before transitioning to acting, appearing in two serial films in 1939. Her third role was a lead part as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette (1943), which earned her the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jennifer Jones is the 637th most popular actor (down from 630th in 2019), the 1,325th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,158th in 2019) and the 327th most popular American Actor.

Jennifer Jones is most famous for her role in the 1944 film "The Song of Bernadette."

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Among actors, Jennifer Jones ranks 637 out of 13,578. Before her are Cornel Wilde, Morgan Fairchild, Meg Ryan, Forest Whitaker, Eleonora Duse, and Laurence Fishburne. After her are David McCallum, Elsa Martinelli, Mr. T, Diana Douglas, Bernard Hill, and Mark Wahlberg.

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Among people born in 1919, Jennifer Jones ranks 39. Before her are Dino De Laurentiis, Abdirashid Shermarke, Andreas Papandreou, Leon Festinger, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and James M. Buchanan. After her are Gerhard Barkhorn, Oleg Penkovsky, César Manrique, Mordechai Anielewicz, Martin Balsam, and Boris Shcherbina. Among people deceased in 2009, Jennifer Jones ranks 36. Before her are Vivian Maier, Ted Kennedy, Takashi Takabayashi, Maurice Druon, Tomohiko Ikoma, and Bobby Robson. After her are John Updike, Gaafar Nimeiry, Leszek Kołakowski, Norman Borlaug, Natasha Richardson, and Ralf Dahrendorf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Jones ranks 1,325 out of 20,380. Before her are Martha Graham (1894), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Michael Kors (1959), Stanley Miller (1930), Laurence Fishburne (1961), and Virginia Satir (1916). After her are Donald Rumsfeld (1932), Helen Wills (1905), James B. Conant (1893), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), and Horatio Alger (1832).

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Among actors born in United States, Jennifer Jones ranks 327. Before her are Halle Berry (1966), Lance Henriksen (1940), Morgan Fairchild (1950), Meg Ryan (1961), Forest Whitaker (1961), and Laurence Fishburne (1961). After her are Mr. T (1952), Mark Wahlberg (1971), Carl Weathers (1948), James Cagney (1899), Harry Dean Stanton (1926), and Jane Wyman (1917).

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