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Olga Knipper

1868 - 1959

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Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (Russian: О́льга Леона́рдовна Кни́ппер-Че́хова; 21 September [O.S. 9 September] 1868 – 22 March 1959) was a Russian and Soviet stage actress. She was married to Anton Chekhov. Knipper was among the 39 original members of the Moscow Art Theatre when it was formed by Konstantin Stanislavski in 1898. She played Arkadina in The Seagull (1898), played Elena in the Moscow premiere of Uncle Vanya (1899), and was the first to play Masha in Three Sisters (1901) and Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard (1904). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Knipper is the 1,134th most popular actor (down from 937th in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from Russia (down from 486th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Olga Knipper ranks 1,134 out of 13,578. Before her are Lea Massari, Judith Anderson, Adam West, James Faulkner, Mary Steenburgen, and Paul L. Smith. After her are David Warner, Stacy Keach, Priscilla Lane, Victor Garber, Patricia Neal, and Dean Cain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Olga Knipper ranks 63. Before her are Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, Harvey S. Firestone, Franz Ritter von Epp, and Princess Anastasia of Montenegro. After her are Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Noe Zhordania, Empress Dowager Longyu, Kantarō Suzuki, Ahmed Shawqi, and Henry Bergman. Among people deceased in 1959, Olga Knipper ranks 45. Before her are John Foster Dulles, Ichirō Hatoyama, Mario Lanza, Sisavang Vong, Sidney Bechet, and Rudolf Caracciola. After her are Barthélemy Boganda, Zhang Jinghui, Grock, Elias, Duke of Parma, Edvard Eriksen, and Hitoshi Ashida.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Knipper ranks 520 out of 3,761. Before her are Igor Ivanov (1945), Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Grigory Orlov (1734), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), and Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813). After her are Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Valentin Ivanov (1934), Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), and Chaim Rumkowski (1877).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Olga Knipper ranks 8. Before her are Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Michael Chekhov (1891), Lila Kedrova (1918), Sacha Guitry (1885), Yuri Nikulin (1921), and Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928). After her are Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), George Sanders (1906), Lyubov Orlova (1902), Alisa Freindlich (1934), and Oleg Popov (1930).

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