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Theda Bara

1885 - 1955

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Theda Bara ( THEE-də BARR-ə; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire, here meaning a seductive woman), later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles based in exoticism and sexual domination. Born to a Jewish family in Cincinnati, Bara was the biggest star of Fox Studios, which concocted a fictitious persona for her as an Egyptian-born woman interested in the occult. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theda Bara is the 1,145th most popular actor (down from 853rd in 2019), the 2,194th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,531st in 2019) and the 568th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Theda Bara ranks 1,145 out of 13,578Before her are Patricia Neal, Dean Cain, Ciarán Hinds, Clive Owen, Libuše Šafránková, and Ving Rhames. After her are Mark Strong, Michael Massee, Hilary Swank, David Tomlinson, Alan Alda, and Blythe Danner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Theda Bara ranks 62Before her are André Lhote, Sisavang Vong, Bess Truman, Gunnar Asplund, René Grousset, and Harlow Shapley. After her are Friedrich Kellner, Alois Hudal, Per Albin Hansson, Jules Romains, Władysław Raczkiewicz, and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1955, Theda Bara ranks 46Before her are Archie Hahn, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Alexander Wienerberger, Otto Braun, and Léon Werth. After her are Max Pechstein, Alfréd Hajós, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Olga Khokhlova, Pierre Levegh, and Manuel Ávila Camacho.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theda Bara ranks 2,194 out of 20,380Before her are Thornton Wilder (1897), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Blase J. Cupich (1949), Henry Ford II (1917), and Ving Rhames (1959). After her are Frank Wilczek (1951), William Wyatt Bibb (1781), Jerry Reed (1937), Alexander Haig (1924), Fredric Jameson (1934), and Michael Massee (1952).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Theda Bara ranks 568Before her are Paul L. Smith (1936), Stacy Keach (1941), Priscilla Lane (1915), Patricia Neal (1926), Dean Cain (1966), and Ving Rhames (1959). After her are Michael Massee (1952), Hilary Swank (1974), Alan Alda (1936), Blythe Danner (1943), Michael Rooker (1955), and Vera Miles (1929).