On a trip to Finland in 1969, while still pregnant to her daughter Lora, she located her birth mother, Helmi Rusanen, and an older half-sister and in 1997 she discovered a brother residing in Australia. Kristen's personal life has revolved around discovering her roots, caring for her daughter, and now caring for her granddaughter. Kristen also provided voice work for the 2009 animated theatrical short The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas which also included voice work from her Lost in Space co-stars Harris, Mumy and Angela Cartwright. She also appeared in the A&E biography Jonathan Harris, Never Fear Smith Is Here in 2002. In recent years she has starred in the 1998 television movie Lost in Space Forever and had a cameo role in the 1998 movie Lost in Space. She also made the occasional film appearance in movies such as Terminal Island (1973) and the cult science fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). LOST IN SPACE: THE ORIGINAL UNAIRED PILOT (DVD-R,2015) NEW&SEALED Region 0 U.S. When her daughter was born in 1969 she began making television commercials and eventually appeared in more than 40. LOST IN SPACE (TV) Angela Cartwright, June Lockhart, Marta Kristen 10x8. Directed by Stephanie Rothman, Terminal Island stars Phyllis Davis, Tom Selleck, Marta Kristen, Ena. She would later star in Lost in Space and make numerous guest appearances on television shows. Her first success in acting was the role of Lorelei in the 1965 movie Beach Blanket Bingo. She first appeared in a 1961 episode ("Bang! You're Dead") of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, alongside Billy Mumy, who would later co-star with Kristen in Lost in Space. Knowing her Scandinavian heritage she adopted the more European sounded, "Marta" and used Marta Kristen as her stage name. Later, she moved to Los Angeles, California, with her family in 1959 when her father was on a sabbatical Marta remained there, with a guardian and is graduate of Santa Monica High School. Marta also has an adopted brother which her foster parents adopted later. Her foster father was a of Professor of Education, at Wayne University, Detroit, Michigan. She spent her first years in an orphanage in Norway, and then was adopted in 1949 by an American couple from Detroit, Michigan, Harold Oliver Soderquist and Bertha, and renamed her Martha Annalise Soderquist. After languishing for years in her opulent prison, Lydia leaves her country estate for the glamour and excitement of London-and unfortunately her husband’s path.Ĭast adrift on the Indian Ocean, 18-year-old Maria is saved by the crew of the steamship Trevessa.She can’t tell them her tragic tale, so the superstitious sailors make up their own stories – and some would sacrifice her to the seas to save themselves from the coming storm.Kristen was born Birgit Annalisa Rusanen in Oslo, Norway, to a Finnish mother and a German soldier father who was killed during World War II. After years of mistreatment at the hands of her family, Lydia was prepared to be an accommodating wife but her rigid and unforgiving husband asked too much of her. She and her husband live in Santa Monica, California, with a pair of rescue dogs.Ī Regency historical novel. She met her second husband, Kevin Kane, in 1974. On a trip to Finland in 1969, she located her birth mother, Helmi Rusanen, and an older sister whom she had never met and in 1997 she discovered a brother residing in Australia. Kristen’s personal life has revolved around discovering her roots, caring for her daughter, and now caring for her granddaughter. Kristen also provided voice work for the 2009 animated theatrical short The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas which also included voice work from her Lost in Space co-stars Jonathan Harris, Bill Mumy and Angela Cartwright. She also appeared in the A&E Biography Jonathan Harris, Never Fear Smith Is Here in 2002. And had a cameo role in the 1998 movie Lost in Space.
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