10 Most Popular Actors on IMDb's Website and Apps
The crown for Internet Movie Database's most-visited profile no longer belongs to perennial chart-topper Johnny Depp.
Natalie Portman attracted the most page views on IMDb.com and the service's slew of mobile apps, making her the queen bee on IMDbs Top 10 Stars list this year.
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But why Portman? "You can see why," says IMDb managing editor Keith Simanton. "She won a Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan, was in the news welcoming a son into the world in June, and appeared in three films (No Strings Attached, Your Highness and Thor)."
Depp, who has topped the annual rankings for six of the past seven years, fell to third. Sandwiched between him and Portman as runner-up is Mila Kunis. The Black Swan co-stars' one-two punch helped push the gender ratio of the list to 50% female -- opposed to 2010 when women secured only three spots.
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- 1. Natalie Portman
- 2. Mila Kunis
- 3. Johnny Depp
- 4. Emma Stone
- 5. Chris Hemsworth
- 6. Olivia Wilde
- 7. Jennifer Lawrence
- 8. George Clooney
- 9. Ryan Gosling
- 10. Christian Bale
Bumped off the top 10 list this year were Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Gerard Butler, Megan Fox and Zoe Saldana.
Up until a few years ago, IMDb created the rankings based on page views to its website. In the past two or so years, though, the Amazon-owned service began offering mobile options starting w! ith the official iPhone app in 2009. The app selection soon expanded to the iPad, iPod touch, Android devices and Windows Phones in 2010. The rankings now account for page views on those mobile apps, which combined with the website garner 110 million unique visitors per month.
This year, 21-year-old IMDb released a trivia app as well as IMDb Buzz, which gives users entertainment news.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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