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Norma Shearer

1902 - 1983

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Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930). Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norma Shearer is the 1,306th most popular actor (down from 1,185th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Canada (down from 97th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Canadian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Norma Shearer ranks 1,306 out of 13,578. Before her are Yuen Biao, Marika Rökk, Helen McCrory, Christine Kaufmann, Bernard Blier, and Bonnie Bedelia. After her are Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Felicity Huffman, Yevgeny Leonov, James Sikking, Henry Bergman, and Mira Furlan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Norma Shearer ranks 82. Before her are Maurice Duruflé, Alfredo Binda, Markian Popov, Eugen Jochum, William Walton, and Demchugdongrub. After her are Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, Therese Brandl, Abraham Wald, George Gaylord Simpson, Wifredo Lam, and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. Among people deceased in 1983, Norma Shearer ranks 59. Before her are Kurt Tank, Walther Nehring, William Walton, Walter Stennes, Nicolaus von Below, and Victor Turner. After her are Marianne Brandt, Igor Markevitch, Jean Rey, Carolyn Jones, Arno Babajanian, and Miguel Alemán Valdés.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Norma Shearer ranks 114 out of 1,622. Before her are Simon Newcomb (1835), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Graham Greene (1952), and Justin Bieber (1994). After her are Mark Carney (1965), Denny Doherty (1940), Norman Jewison (1926), Jean Chrétien (1934), Thomas Christopher Collins (1947), and Donna Strickland (1959).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Norma Shearer ranks 28. Before her are Lois Maxwell (1927), Mike Myers (1963), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Michael Ironside (1950), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), and Graham Greene (1952). After her are Eric McCormack (1963), Margot Kidder (1948), Raymond Burr (1917), Martin Short (1950), Joshua Jackson (1978), and Walter Huston (1883).

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