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Loretta Swit

1937 - 2025

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Loretta Jane Swit (born Loretta Jane Szwed; November 4, 1937 – May 30, 2025) was an American stage and television actress. She was widely known for her character roles, especially her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards in each season of the long-running show, and won two, in 1980 and 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Loretta Swit is the 2,619th most popular actor (up from 4,100th in 2019), the 4,541st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,072nd in 2019) and the 1,269th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Loretta Swit ranks 2,619 out of 13,578. Before her are Rossano Brazzi, Ng Man-tat, Gabriel Macht, Barbara Steele, George Raft, and Liz Sheridan. After her are Tony Leung Ka-fai, Ray Bolger, Federico Luppi, Lesley Nicol, Oona Chaplin, and Bruno Kirby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Loretta Swit ranks 223. Before her are Ron Carter, Nur Hassan Hussein, David Mumford, Eduard Artemyev, George Zweig, and Barbara Steele. After her are Robert Ressler, Joe Viterelli, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Tomas Venclova, Claude Allègre, and Jackie Collins. Among people deceased in 2025, Loretta Swit ranks 162. Before her are Buvaisar Saitiev, Jayant Narlikar, Sly Stone, Bernhard Vogel, Kiril Ivkov, and Gazi Yaşargil. After her are Dick Button, Taina Elg, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Pamela Bach, Claude Allègre, and Xu Qiliang.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Loretta Swit ranks 4,541 out of 20,380. Before her are Barbara Hutton (1912), Peter Senge (1947), Brian Herbert (1947), Gabriel Macht (1972), George Raft (1901), and Liz Sheridan (1929). After her are James Quinn (1906), Robert Ressler (1937), Francis Lane (1874), Ray Bolger (1904), Carolyn Schuler (1943), and Byron Scott (1961).

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Among actors born in United States, Loretta Swit ranks 1,269. Before her are Seymour Cassel (1935), Broncho Billy Anderson (1880), Tom Atkins (1935), Gabriel Macht (1972), George Raft (1901), and Liz Sheridan (1929). After her are Ray Bolger (1904), Bruno Kirby (1949), Josephine Hull (1877), Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905), Marlee Matlin (1965), and Pernell Roberts (1928).

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