Marta kristen actress biography

All All. Sign In. Birgit Annalisa Rusanen. Marta was only two months old when she was left in an orphanage. In , Dr. In , the family moved to L. In , Marta met a graduate student and, 6 months later, they got married.

Marta Kristen is a Norwegian-born

Her career took off and she made a splash as the mermaid "Lorelei" in Beach Blanket Bingo She would be best-known and remembered, however, for her signature role of "Judy Robinson" in Lost in Space However, the show was not as great as expected. Marta later said in an interview, "The show had so much promise. When it started to be silly, we all began to look at each other and say, 'We're in an episode with talking vegetables?

Offscreen, Marta tried to find her roots, but it was not until , pregnant with her first child and traveling alone through Europe looking for her long-lost relatives, that Marta was able to find her biological mother in Finland; she also met her older sister for the first time, whom she didn't know about. Marta concentrated on raising her daughter, and instead of doing television or films, she appeared in over 40 TV commercials, which required less time away from home.

Marta and her first husband divorced in In , she met Kevin Kane, an attorney; they were married until his death in Marta has remained moderately active in TV and movies, even appearing in the big screen version of Lost in Space