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Taina Elg | |
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 Elg at Midnight Sun Film (16 June 2012) | |
| Born | Taina Elisabeth Elg 9 March 1930 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, dancer |
| Years active | 1941–2006 |
| Spouses | Carl-Gustav Björkenheim (m. 1953;div. 1960)Rocco Caporale (m. 1985;died 2008) |
| Children | Raoul Björkenheim |
| Parent(s) | Helena Dobroumova Åke Elg (né Ludwig) |
Taina Elisabeth Elg (born 9 March 1930) is a Finnish-American actress and dancer. She has appeared on stage, television, and in film.
Elg was born in 1930 in Helsinki, [2] and raised in Turku by her parents, Åke Elg (né Ludwig), a Finnish pianist, and Helena Doroumova (who was of Russian descent). [3] She was signed to a seven-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the mid-1950s. In 1957, she won the Golden Globe for the Foreign Newcomer Award – Female. She won another Golden Globe in 1958 for Best Motion Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy for her performance in Les Girls , tying with her co-star, Kay Kendall. [4]
In 1958, she was nominated for a Golden Laurel as Top New Female Personality. In 1959 she starred alongside Kenneth More in The 39 Steps . In 1975, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez in Where's Charley? . She appeared in the original Broadway production of Nine as Guido Contini's mother. In 1989, she had the title role as Lea in Chéri, from a Colette novel as adapted by Anita Loos. [5] In 1980, she played Dr. Ingrid Fischer on CBS daytime drama soap opera Guiding Light . From 1980–82, she played Olympia Buchanan, first wife of tycoon Asa Buchanan, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live . Her character, held prisoner by Asa for months, had a memorable death sequence, falling over a balcony at a costume party.
Her son by her first marriage to Carl-Gustav Björkenheim, which ended in divorce in 1960, [6] is Finnish-American jazz guitarist Raoul Björkenheim. In 1985, Elg married Rocco Caporale, an Italian-born educator and professor of sociology. She lives in New York City. [7]
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