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Luise Rainer

1910 - 2014

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Luise Rainer ( RY-nər, German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ]; 12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German-born film actress. She was the first thespian to win multiple Academy Awards, and the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday, she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient (and the longest-lived female star from Classic Hollywood), a superlative that has not been exceeded, as of 2025. Rainer started her acting career in Germany at age 16, under the tutelage of Austria's leading stage director, Max Reinhardt. Within a few years, she had become a distinguished Berlin stage actress with Reinhardt's Vienna theater ensemble. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luise Rainer is the 612th most popular actor (down from 582nd in 2019), the 914th most popular biography from Germany (up from 920th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Actor.

Luise Rainer is most famous for being the first person to win two Academy Awards for acting.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Luise Rainer ranks 612 out of 13,578. Before her are Nastassja Kinski, Frank Marshall, Lita Grey, Anthony Edwards, William Fichtner, and Gabriel Byrne. After her are Glenda Jackson, Karlheinz Böhm, Sam Anderson, Thandie Newton, Jude Law, and Laura Gemser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Luise Rainer ranks 43. Before her are Edda Mussolini, Jean Anouilh, Benzion Netanyahu, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Nathuram Godse, and Tjalling Koopmans. After her are António de Spínola, Pierre Schaeffer, Ne Win, Erich Kempka, Edvard Kardelj, and Momofuku Ando. Among people deceased in 2014, Luise Rainer ranks 45. Before her are Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Gerald Edelman, Tito Vilanova, William R. Pogue, Mickey Rooney, and Dobrica Ćosić. After her are Karlheinz Böhm, Daniel Keyes, Kim Song-ae, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Ultimate Warrior, and Yozo Aoki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Luise Rainer ranks 914 out of 7,253. Before her are Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), Hugo Junkers (1859), Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (1262), John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), and Isdal Woman (1940). After her are Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Kurt Eisner (1867), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Luise Rainer ranks 11. Before her are Magda Schneider (1909), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Emmy Göring (1893), Hardy Krüger (1928), Udo Kier (1944), and Nastassja Kinski (1961). After her are Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Horst Buchholz (1933), Max Schreck (1879), Karin Schubert (1944), Lale Andersen (1905), and Horst Tappert (1923).

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