
She was named Marta in honor of Marta Bentzen, the Oslo social worker who assisted the Soderquists with the voluminous red tape attached to an international adoption. After four years, in 1948, she was adopted by Professor and Mrs. Retrieved September 8, 2017.Birgit Annalisa Rusanen was born in Oslo, Norway, on February 26 and left in an orphanage when she was two weeks old. " 'Lost in Space' duo remember '60s sci-fi at MidSouthCon 30". ^ "IN Magazine For the Girl of Today".^ a b "TV Picture Life - November 1966"."Personalistic Naturalism and the Ends of Education". ^ Soderquist, Harold (January 1, 1954).^ "University of Minnesota COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION WINTER QUARTER" (PDF).^ Mad Bros Media (August 15, 2015), LOST IN SPACE 50th Anniversary Interview FEATURING MARK GODDARD & MARTA KRISTEN, 4th GalactiCon, Seattle 2015, archived from the original on Decem, retrieved Septem: CS1 maint: location ( link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link).They lived in Santa Monica, California, with two rescue dogs until 2016, when Kristen announced on her Facebook page that Kane had died. Kane, in 1974 and they married on November 18, 1978. Her first marriage was to Terry Treadwell, a psychologist. 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.
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She also made the occasional film appearance in movies such as Terminal Island (1973), Once in 1974, appearing as a bare breasted 'Humanity', and the science-fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and had a cameo role in the 1998 movie Lost in Space. She also appeared in the A&E biography Jonathan Harris: Never Fear, Smith Is Here in 2002. Afterwards, she had a daughter, born in 1969, and appeared in more than forty television commercials as well as making numerous guest appearances on television shows. Kristen starred in Lost in Space from its beginning in 1965 until its cancellation in 1968. She played the role of Lorelei in the 1965 movie Beach Blanket Bingo.

Kristen's first film role was in the 1963 Walt Disney production of Savage Sam. In 1963, she starred with Tony Dow in "Four Feet in the Morning," an episode of The Eleventh Hour. She first appeared in a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "Bang! You're Dead", alongside Billy Mumy, who later co-starred with Kristen in Lost in Space. Reflecting her Scandinavian heritage, Kristen adopted the more European-sounding "Marta" and used Marta Kristen as her stage name. Career Kristen and Tommy Kirk in Savage Sam Marta Kristen in 2018 She remained there, with a guardian, and is a graduate of Santa Monica High School. In 1959, Kristen moved to Los Angeles, California when her father was on a sabbatical. Kristen has a brother whom her parents adopted. Her adoptive father was a professor of education at Wayne University, Detroit. Birgit spent her first years in an orphanage in Norway, and was then adopted in 1949 by a couple from Detroit, Michigan, Harold Oliver Soderquist, and his wife, Bertha, who renamed her Martha Annalise Soderquist. 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. Her character was a young adult, around 20 years of age.

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Kristen is best known for her role as Judy Robinson, the oldest child of Professor John Robinson and his wife, Maureen, in the television series Lost in Space (1965–1968). Marta Kristen is a Norwegian-born American actress.
