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Mary Martin

1913 - 1990

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Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). Over the course of her career, she won four Tony Awards and an Emmy Award. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Mary Martin is the 5,149th most popular actor (down from 5,066th in 2024), the 8,043rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,387th in 2019) and the 2,349th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Mary Martin ranks 5,149 out of 13,578. Before her are Lexington Steele, Kevin Durand, Rory Calhoun, Joe Cole, James Coco, and Rashida Jones. After her are Loni Anderson, Marshall Allman, Elpidia Carrillo, Janet Montgomery, Suchitra Sen, and Michael J. Anderson.

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Among people born in 1913, Mary Martin ranks 287. Before her are Nikolay Latyshev, Joe Kelly, Masaji Kiyokawa, Aleksanteri Saarvala, Oswald Teichmüller, and Cordwainer Smith. After her are Tony Zale, Hans-Peter Tschudi, Ted Grant, Severino Varela, Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, and Qiao Guanhua. Among people deceased in 1990, Mary Martin ranks 240. Before her are Margarete Adler, Allen Collins, José Luis Panizo, Lotte Jacobi, Larry O'Brien, and Jill Esmond. After her are Gary Merrill, Chiara Badano, Ina Balin, Maurice Cloche, Ian Charleson, and Ludwig Lachmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Martin ranks 8,045 out of 20,380. Before her are Alan Dean Foster (1946), James Coco (1930), Rashida Jones (1976), Zalman King (1941), Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), and Joe Crowley (1962). After her are Loni Anderson (1945), Bart D. Ehrman (1955), Roger Maris (1934), Charlie Logg (1931), Karl Struss (1886), and Marshall Allman (1984).

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Among actors born in United States, Mary Martin ranks 2,350. Before her are Leslie Mann (1972), Robert Earl Jones (1910), Lexington Steele (1969), Rory Calhoun (1922), James Coco (1930), and Rashida Jones (1976). After her are Loni Anderson (1945), Marshall Allman (1984), Michael J. Anderson (1953), Edward Burns (1968), Albert Dekker (1905), and Dick Van Patten (1928).

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