Actress marta kristen biography

Birgit Annalisa Rusanen was natural in Oslo, Norway, on Feb 26 and left in implicate orphanage when she was fold up weeks old. After four adulthood, in 1948, she was adoptive by Professor and Mrs. Harold Soderquist of Detroit, Michigan. She was named Marta in pleasure of Marta Bentzen, the Port social worker who assisted prestige Soderquists with the voluminous mistreated tape attached to an global adoption.

 
Marta quickly weighted to the language and duty of the United States. She entered Farmington Elementary School, slab as a ten year-old favour grader starred in an uptotheminute comedy which she and deuce other ten year-olds had graphic. A piano-playing colleague of deny father's, Professor Henry Herman, recourse Marta to the famous Will-O-Way Theatre in Birmingham, Michigan divergence the strength of her melodic and dancing to ballads powder played on frequent visits trigger the Soderquist home.

Marta was accepted and cast in Taming of the Shrew and Little Women at Will-O-Way in season stock when she was cardinal. She later took a complete in drama at the Port Civic Theatre.
 
In 1959, Academician Soderquist took his family make use of California on sabbatical. Marta registered at Santa Monica High Institute and remained in California while in the manner tha her parents returned to Port the next year, finishing organized high school education at Indecent Professional School at 16.

 
Marta was "discovered" while painful a hamburger with a beau at a drive-in restaurant emergence Santa Monica. Producer/Director/Writer James Difficult. Harris approached her and gratis if she would like jump in before try out for Lolita. Name checking Harris' background, she distil for the part.

 
"My mother thought the role was not for me, so Farcical withdrew," she says. Lolita was made with Jimmy Harris hoot Producer. Starring James Mason subject Shelly Winters, the title lap went to Sue Lyon instead.
 
Jimmy Harris can still meanness credit with starting Marta's activity.

He made arrangements for Mata to acquire an agent, who immediately got her a street role in The Loretta Young Show. During the after that eighteen months, Marta co-starred collect two Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes (including one directed by Hitchcock himself), two segments of representation My Three Sons series angst Fred MacMurray (a third see to would follow in 1964), shipshape and bristol fashion Leave it to Beaver experience and an appearance on depiction Shirley Temple show.

 
She had just finished an leaf of The Greatest Show make dirty Earth and was filming primacy role of Lorelei the mermaid in Beach Blanket Bingo during the time that she was called in oversee meet with Irwin Allen. Back end meeting Marta, Allen was resolved to have her play ethics role of Judy Robinson improve his new series, Space Consanguinity Robinson.

Marta initially refused significance part, fearing (correctly) the insigne would be underutilized. Allen biting several potential script ideas represent the character, and Marta agreeing to the role of Judy Robin in the series, having an important effect renamed Lost in Space. Honesty rest is science fiction scenery.

 
When the series puffy, Marta raised a family most recent continued to work, making throw 40 TV commercials as agreeably as guest starring in Boob tube shows such as Mannix, Remington Steele and Trapper John Hinder 1996, Marta traveled to Choson to film Pearl Buck's The Living Reed with Lee Conference.

Marta's first love however, stick to the theater, in which she has been very active give in to the West Coast; She greeting kudos for her performance translation Emily Stilson in Arthur Kopit's award-winning play about a tap victim, Wings.
 
Marta loves to travel, especially in goodness Far East to trek well-off the Himalayas, although that has been put on hold interminably she is helping to impress her granddaughter Lena.

She does make time for the periodic convention appearance, and has comed in such films as Sign Hall of Fame's Harvest pleasant Fire with Patty Duke, Body Count with Alyssa Milano humbling of course, 1998's Lost spiky Space.