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Kim Hunter

1922 - 2002

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Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole; November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for portraying Nola Madison on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968), and its sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kim Hunter is the 1,196th most popular actor (up from 1,268th in 2019), the 2,277th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,206th in 2019) and the 588th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Kim Hunter ranks 1,196 out of 13,578. Before her are Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Mike Myers, Nino Manfredi, Barbara Hershey, Jeremy Brett, and Lisa Kudrow. After her are Laura Dern, Jan-Michael Vincent, Julia Ormond, Ricardo Montalbán, Vinnie Jones, and Marie Trintignant.

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Among people born in 1922, Kim Hunter ranks 99. Before her are Damiano Damiani, Alistair MacLean, Carlos Andrés Pérez, Paul Marcinkus, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, and George Blake. After her are Rajko Mitić, Elmer Bernstein, Ralph H. Baer, Yvonne De Carlo, Anker Jørgensen, and José Froilán González. Among people deceased in 2002, Kim Hunter ranks 73. Before her are Sohn Kee-chung, Abba Eban, Katy Jurado, John Frankenheimer, Joaquín Balaguer, and Infanta Beatriz of Spain. After her are Henri Verneuil, Joe Strummer, Velibor Vasović, Pierre Werner, George Roy Hill, and Chico Xavier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kim Hunter ranks 2,277 out of 20,380. Before her are George Speck (1824), Chevy Chase (1943), John O'Keefe (1939), Samuel Huntington (1731), Lisa Kudrow (1963), and Larry Holmes (1949). After her are Laura Dern (1967), Seka (1954), Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), Chris Brown (1989), Frank Borzage (1894), and Abner Doubleday (1819).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Kim Hunter ranks 588. Before her are John Carradine (1906), Jerry Stiller (1927), Ralph Macchio (1961), Ruth Gordon (1896), Barbara Hershey (1948), and Lisa Kudrow (1963). After her are Laura Dern (1967), Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), Ernie Hudson (1945), Sarah Rose Karr (1984), Luke Perry (1966), and Marcia Cross (1962).

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