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Shelley Winters

1920 - 2006

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Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). She also acted on television, including a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and wrote three autobiographies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shelley Winters is the 727th most popular actor (down from 622nd in 2019), the 1,489th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,145th in 2019) and the 376th most popular American Actor.

Shelley Winters was most famous for her roles in the films A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita, and The Poseidon Adventure.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Shelley Winters ranks 727 out of 13,578. Before her are Marlène Jobert, Annette Bening, Max Schreck, Lex Barker, Holland Taylor, and Ed Begley Jr.. After her are James Garner, Ken Takakura, Charlize Theron, Pat Hitchcock, CCH Pounder, and Milena Dravić.

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Among people born in 1920, Shelley Winters ranks 63. Before her are Michèle Morgan, Alberto Sordi, E. Donnall Thomas, Jack Elam, Ștefan Kovács, and Takashi Kano. After her are Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Isaac Stern, Walter Nowotny, George Armitage Miller, and Chiara Lubich. Among people deceased in 2006, Shelley Winters ranks 51. Before her are Zoia Ceaușescu, Karel Appel, Ed Bradley, Ahmet Ertegun, Nam June Paik, and John Kenneth Galbraith. After her are P. W. Botha, Alexander Litvinenko, James Van Allen, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prince George William of Hanover, and Murray Bookchin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 1,489 out of 20,380. Before her are Alan J. Pakula (1928), Lex Barker (1919), Holland Taylor (1943), Paul Manafort (1949), Norman Borlaug (1914), and Ed Begley Jr. (1949). After her are Magic Johnson (1959), John Kennedy (1951), Britney Spears (1981), Kathryn Bigelow (1951), James Garner (1928), and Sean Combs (1969).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 376. Before her are Brooke Shields (1965), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), Annette Bening (1958), Lex Barker (1919), Holland Taylor (1943), and Ed Begley Jr. (1949). After her are James Garner (1928), Tom Berenger (1949), Andie MacDowell (1958), Adrien Brody (1973), Eric Roberts (1956), and Gary Sinise (1955).

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