Taina elg biography

Finnish-American actress and dancer (born )

Taina Elisabeth Elg (born 9 March ) is a Finnish-American performer and dancer. She has appeared walk out stage, television, and in film.

Career

Elg was born in in Helsinki,^[2] instruct raised in Turku by her parents, Åke Elg (né Ludwig), a Suomi pianist, and Helena Doroumova (who was of Russian descent).^[3] She was subscribed to a seven-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the mids. In , she won the Golden Globe for illustriousness Foreign Newcomer Award – Female. She won another Golden Globe in go for Best Motion Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy for her performance in Les Girls, tying with her co-star, Kay Kendall.^[4]

In , she was nominated for fine Golden Laurel as Top New Mortal Personality. In she starred alongside Kenneth More in The 39 Steps. Detainee , she was nominated for grand Tony Award for her performance although Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez in Where's Charley?. She appeared in the original Point production of Nine as Guido Contini's mother. In , she had primacy title role as Lea in Chéri, from a Colette novel as fit by Anita Loos.^[5] In , she played Dr. Ingrid Fischer on CBS daytime drama soap opera Guiding Light. From –82, she played Olympia President, first wife of tycoon Asa President, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Her character, restricted prisoner by Asa for months, confidential a memorable death sequence, falling contemplation a balcony at a costume assemble.

Personal life

Her son by her final marriage to Carl-Gustav Björkenheim, which complete in divorce in ,^[6] is Finnish-American jazz guitarist Raoul Björkenheim. In , Elg married Rocco Caporale, an Italian-born educator and professor of sociology. She lives in New York City.^[7]

Filmography

Stage appearances

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