
Looking for her long-lost relatives, that Marta was able to find her biological mother in Finland she also met her older sister for theįirst time, whom she didn't know about. Offscreen, Marta tried to find her roots, but it was not until 1969, pregnant with her first child and traveling alone through Europe This?" Even worse, the show did not feature her prominently - in the most popular episode,Īlbert Salmi (like Marta, of Finnish descent) guest-starred, she had only one word of dialogue (she gets to say "good-bye" to the pirate). We all began to look at each other and say, 'We're in an episode with talking vegetables?' Five years of the Actors Studio, and I'm doing Marta later said in an interview, "The show had so much promise. However, the show was not as great as expected. She would be best-known and remembered, however, for her signature role of "Judy Robinson" in Lost in Space (1965). Her career took off and she made a splash as the mermaid "Lorelei" in Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). Student and, 6 months later, they got married. The Loretta Young Show (1953) (aka "The New Loretta Young Show").

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Petite aspiring actress he arranged for her to get an agent, and she was quickly booked for TV programs, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and and she attended Santa Monica High School for a year she later graduated from Hollywood

Harold Soderquist of Detroit, Michigan adopted her, and brought her to America she was renamed Martha Soderquist.

Marta was only two months old when she was left in an orphanage. Marta Kristen was born Birgit Annalisa Rusanen, on February 26, 1945, in Oslo, Norway, to a Finnish mother and a German soldier who was killed towards the end of World War II in Europe.
