Evi Kent | |
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Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Years active | 1953–1982 (film & TV) |
Evi Kent (born 1939) was a Czech-born German film, stage and television actress and also enjoyed some success as a singer.
She was born in Brünn in Czechoslovakia, shortly before it was Occupied by Germany. She later settled in West Germany following the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and studied acting in Berlin. One of her first film roles was in Robert Siodmak's My Father, the Actor . [1]
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