Linda Christian
| Linda Christian | |
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Linda Christian with Edmund Purdom in 1962
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| Born |
Blanca Rosa Welter November 13, 1923 Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| Died | July 22, 2011 (aged 87) Palm Desert, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Colon cancer |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Other names | Linda Christian Power, Linda Welter |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1943–1988 |
| Spouse(s) |
Tyrone Power (m. 1949–1956, divorced) Edmund Purdom (m. 1962–1963, divorced) |
| Children | Romina Power, Taryn Power |
| Parent(s) | Gerardus Jacob Welter (father) Blanca Rosa Vorhauer (mother) |
| Relatives | Ariadne Welter (sister) |
Linda Christian (November 13, 1923 – July 22, 2011) was a Mexican film actress, who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film, Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 television adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. In 1963 she starred in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "An Out for Oscar".
Christian was born as Blanca Rosa Welter in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a daughter of Dutch engineer and Royal Dutch Shell executive, Gerardus Jacob Welter (1904–1981), and his Mexican-born wife, the former Blanca Rosa Vorhauer (1901-1992), who was of Spanish, German and French descent. The Welter family moved a great deal during Christian's youth, living everywhere from South America and Europe to the Middle East and Africa. As a result of this nomadic lifestyle, Christian became an accomplished polyglot with the ability to speak fluent French, German, Dutch, Spanish, English, Italian and even a bit of haphazard Arabic and Russian.
Christian had three younger siblings, a sister, actress Ariadna Gloria Welter (1930–1998), and two brothers, Gerardus Jacob Welter (born 1924) and Edward Albert Welter (born 1932).
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