Joan Fontaine (1917-2013)
62.2 TOPICAL actor score · #338 of 1,977 actors
Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) has a TOPICAL actor score of 62.2 - ranked 338 of the 1,977 actors TOPICAL ranks. Their strongest parts are career standing and prime. They've won 1 acting honour from 1 nomination, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Their best ten-year run was 1939-1948. Best films: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours81
Prime85
Their movies42
Credits38
Career standing91
- Acting honours1 win, 1 nomination - incl. Academy Award for Best Actress
- Prime1939-1948
- Credits46 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 14 scored films (8 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 77 languages
“Fontaine received her first major roles in The Man Who Found Himself (1937) and in Gunga Din (1939).”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 8/10
Joan Fontaine's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | Rebecca | 1940 | 2 |
| 1,021 | Suspicion | 1941 | 2 |
| 1,619 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | 1 |
| 2,292 | The Women | 1939 | 6 |
| 2,342 | Gunga Din | 1939 | 6 |
| 2,483 | Ivanhoe | 1952 | 3 |
| 4,413 | This Above All | 1942 | 2 |
| 4,870 | The Emperor Waltz | 1948 | 2 |
| 5,051 | A Damsel in Distress | 1937 | 4 |
| 5,161 | Frenchman's Creek | 1944 | 1 |
| 5,256 | The Constant Nymph | 1943 | 2 |
| 5,463 | Quality Street | 1937 | 7 |
| 5,673 | A Certain Smile | 1958 | 2 |
| 6,157 | Man of Conquest | 1939 | 4 |