Norma Shearer

Also known as Edith Norma Shearer

Canadian-American actress (1902-1983)

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Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who became one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the silent film era and early sound pictures in the 1920s and 1930s. She is remembered as a pioneering female performer who achieved significant fame and influence during the formative decades of cinema.

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Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
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Commons category: Norma Shearer
date of birth: 1900-08-10
date of death: 1983-06-12
Commons gallery: Norma Shearer
name in native language: Norma Shearer
start of work period: 1920-00-00
end of work period: 1942-00-00
birth name: Edith Norma Shearer

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Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, was nominated six times in all, and won one for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).

Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or "the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and ... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".