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Joan Lorring

1926 - 2014

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Joan Lorring (born Madeline Ellis; April 17, 1926 – May 30, 2014) was an American actress and singer known for her work in film and theatre. For her role as Bessy Watty in The Corn Is Green (1945), Lorring was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Lorring also originated the role of Marie Buckholder in Come Back, Little Sheba on Broadway in 1950, for which she won a Donaldson Award (an early version of the Tony Award). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Lorring is the 7,881st most popular actor (down from 6,529th in 2024), the 77th most popular biography from Hong Kong (down from 65th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Chinese Actor.

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Among actors, Joan Lorring ranks 7,876 out of 13,578. Before her are Dan Butler. After her are AnnaSophia Robb, Tamara Tunie, Kristen Johnston, Lucy Fry, Isabel Jeans, Jack Wild, Jackson Rathbone, Tomokazu Sugita, Hannah John-Kamen, Sam McMurray, and Enrico Colantoni.

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Among people born in 1926, Joan Lorring ranks 515. Before her are Nikolai Tishchenko, R. L. Burnside, Peter Broeker, J. I. Packer, Sonja Åkesson, and Margreth Weivers. After her are Alfonso Silva, Don Messick, Kenneth Williams, J. P. Donleavy, Aldo Tarlao, and Bruce Harlan. Among people deceased in 2014, Joan Lorring ranks 507. Before her are Yves Delacour, Andriy Husin, Bob Kenney, Leslie Feinberg, Barbara Prammer, and Zohra Sehgal. After her are Mónica Spear, Jerry Vale, Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Esther M. Conwell, L'Wren Scott, and Gerald Wilson.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, Joan Lorring ranks 77 out of 115. Before her are Herman Li (1976), Sandy Lam (1966), Ching Wan Tang (1947), Peter Chan (1962), Anita Yuen (1971), and Charles Ng (1960). After her are Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (1975), Eason Chan (1974), Gillian Chung (1981), Marco Fu (1978), Charmaine Sheh (1975), and Sammi Cheng (1972).

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Among ACTORS In Hong Kong

Among actors born in Hong Kong, Joan Lorring ranks 40. Before her are Tzi Ma (1962), Byron Mann (1967), Athena Chu (1971), Sean Lau (1964), Sandy Lam (1966), and Anita Yuen (1971). After her are Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (1975), Eason Chan (1974), Charmaine Sheh (1975), Kara Wai (1960), Sandra Ng (1965), and Maggie Shiu (1965).

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