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Vivien Leigh

1913 - 1967

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Vivien Leigh ( LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937). She then won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vivien Leigh is the 62nd most popular actor (down from 38th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from India (down from 13th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Actor.

Vivien Leigh is most famous for playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vivien Leigh ranks 62 out of 13,578. Before her are Hedy Lamarr, Meryl Streep, Toshiro Mifune, Alan Rickman, Will Smith, and Liam Neeson. After her are James Dean, Steven Seagal, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, and Richard Gere.

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Among people born in 1913, Vivien Leigh ranks 6. Before her are Albert Camus, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Willy Brandt, and Rosa Parks. After her are Menachem Begin, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Burt Lancaster, Klaus Barbie, and Claude Simon. Among people deceased in 1967, Vivien Leigh ranks 6. Before her are Che Guevara, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Puyi, Konrad Adenauer, and René Magritte. After her are John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ed White, Spencer Tracy, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vivien Leigh ranks 30 out of 1,861. Before her are Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Razia Sultana (1205), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), and Jamsetji Tata (1839). After her are Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Padmasambhava (717), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), and Zakir Husain (1897).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Vivien Leigh ranks 3. Before her are Amitabh Bachchan (1942), and Shah Rukh Khan (1965). After her are Aishwarya Rai (1973), Salman Khan (1965), Julie Christie (1940), Priyanka Chopra (1982), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Akshay Kumar (1967), Ashok Kumar (1911), Mukesh (1923), and Ajay Devgn (1969).

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