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Virginia McKenna

1931 - Today

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Dame Virginia Anne McKenna (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation. McKenna won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress in 1956. For A Town Like Alice, she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in 1957, and in 1979 won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for The King and I, making her one of the few to have completed the British Triple Crown. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Virginia McKenna is the 5,463rd most popular actor (down from 5,093rd in 2019), the 4,339th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,858th in 2019) and the 626th most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Virginia McKenna ranks 5,463 out of 13,578. Before her are Eddi Arent, Joseph Bologna, Noel Fisher, Hazal Kaya, Grace Lee Whitney, and Nicholas Gonzalez. After her are Moon So-ri, Désirée Nosbusch, Alan Napier, Lluís Homar, Sandara Park, and Nina Andrycz.

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Among people born in 1931, Virginia McKenna ranks 462. Before her are Sonny Clark, Marina Popovich, Pierre Chambon, Mitzi Gaynor, Marshall Applewhite, and Norman Mineta. After her are Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Věra Suková, Nelly Kaplan, Maxine Singer, Peter Gilmore, and Hubert Sumlin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Virginia McKenna ranks 4,340 out of 8,785. Before her are Henry Cooper (1934), Michael Heseltine (1933), Cecilia Colledge (1920), Stephen Barclay (1972), William Powell Frith (1819), and Youth (1960). After her are Ron Geesin (1943), Brendan Perry (1959), Mary Everest Boole (1832), George Alexander Macfarren (1813), Alan Napier (1903), and M. R. James (1862).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Virginia McKenna ranks 626. Before her are Burt Kwouk (1930), Tobias Menzies (1974), Margaret Leighton (1922), Estelle Winwood (1883), John Callen (1946), and Stephen Mangan (1968). After her are Alan Napier (1903), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Michael Kitchen (1948), Ralph Ineson (1969), Colin Salmon (1962), and Vincent Regan (1965).

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