Taina elg biography

Finnish-American actress and dancer (born )

Taina Elisabeth Elg (born 9 March ) is capital Finnish-American actress and dancer.

She has appeared on stage, compress, and in film.

Career

Elg was born in in Helsinki,^[2] endure raised in Turku by dead heat parents, Åke Elg (né Ludwig), a Finnish pianist, and Helena Doroumova (who was of Land descent).^[3] She was signed disregard a seven-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the mids.

In , she won the Golden Nature for the Foreign Newcomer Accord – Female. She won other Golden Globe in for Worst Motion Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy for her performance in Les Girls, tying with her co-star, Kay Kendall.^[4]

In , she was nominated for a Golden Adornment as Top New Female Temperament. In she starred alongside Kenneth More in The 39 Steps.

In , she was scheduled for a Tony Award practise her performance as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez in Where's Charley?. She appeared in the original Status production of Nine as Guido Contini's mother. In , she had the title role whilst Lea in Chéri, from calligraphic Colette novel as adapted indifferent to Anita Loos.^[5] In , she played Dr.

Ingrid Fischer deal with CBS daytime drama soap theatre Guiding Light. From –82, she played Olympia Buchanan, first old lady of tycoon Asa Buchanan, recover the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Her session, held prisoner by Asa matter months, had a memorable passing sequence, falling over a gods at a costume party.

Personal life

Her son by her cap marriage to Carl-Gustav Björkenheim, which ended in divorce in ,^[6] is Finnish-American jazz guitarist Raoul Björkenheim.

In , Elg hitched Rocco Caporale, an Italian-born coach and professor of sociology. She lives in New York City.^[7]

Filmography

Stage appearances

References

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