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Virginia Cherrill

1908 - 1996

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Virginia Cherrill (April 12, 1908 – November 14, 1996), styled as Virginia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey between 1937 and 1946, was an American actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Virginia Cherrill is the 1,478th most popular actor (up from 2,520th in 2024), the 2,747th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,969th in 2019) and the 727th most popular American Actor.

Virginia Cherrill is most famous for playing the role of the character Lillian Gish in the film The Uninvited (1944).

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Virginia Cherrill ranks 1,478 out of 13,578. Before her are Donald Glover, Paul Ritter, Henry Cavill, Tanya Roberts, Hervé Villechaize, and Gemma Jones. After her are Arnold Vosloo, Fernanda Torres, Philippe Leroy, Gunnel Lindblom, Elizabeth Peña, and Claude Akins.

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Among people born in 1908, Virginia Cherrill ranks 99. Before her are Libertad Lamarque, Cus D'Amato, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Giovannino Guareschi, Leroy Anderson, and Lev Pontryagin. After her are Arturo Frondizi, Alejandro Scopelli, Fritz Witt, Teizo Takeuchi, Carlo Abarth, and Fyodor Okhlopkov. Among people deceased in 1996, Virginia Cherrill ranks 84. Before her are Pavel Sudoplatov, Shūsaku Endō, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Amos Tversky, Ron Brown, and Greer Garson. After her are Albert R. Broccoli, Stavros Niarchos, Antonín Mrkos, Muhammad al-Badr, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, and Virginia Henderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virginia Cherrill ranks 2,747 out of 20,380. Before her are Ivan Sutherland (1938), Tanya Roberts (1955), Richard Ford (1944), Gloria Steinem (1934), Paul Revere (1735), and Alfred Vail (1807). After her are Robert Stroud (1890), Thomas Watson Jr. (1914), Ray Price (1926), Siri Hustvedt (1955), Phil Murphy (1957), and Brian Kemp (1963).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Virginia Cherrill ranks 727. Before her are Dennis Farina (1944), Jessica Alba (1981), Wallace Shawn (1943), Barbara Eden (1931), Donald Glover (1983), and Tanya Roberts (1955). After her are Elizabeth Peña (1959), Claude Akins (1926), Paul Sorvino (1939), Lionel Barrymore (1878), Elisha Cook Jr. (1903), and Priscilla Pointer (1924).

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