Sigrid Gurie
Birthday
1911/05/18
Day of death
1969/08/14 (58 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Sigrid Guri Haukelid
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sigrid Gurie (May 18, 1911 – August 14, 1969) was a Norwegian American motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s. In 1936, Gurie arrived in Hollywood. Film magnate Sam Goldwyn reportedly took credit for discovering her, promoting his discovery as "the new Garbo" and billed her as "the siren of the fjords". When the press discovered Gurie's birth in Flatbush, Goldwyn then claimed "the greatest hoax in movie history." She starred as Kokashin,...Read more
Acting
(1938) Algiers
as Ines
(1939) Rio
as Irene Reynard
(1940) Three Faces West
as Leni 'Lenchen' Braun
(1944) Voice in the Wind
as Marya
(1938) The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Princess Kukachin
(1944) Enemy of Women
as Magda Quandt [bit]
(1940) Dark Streets of Cairo
as Ellen Stephens
(1950) The Du Pont Story
as Sophie du Pont
(1948) Sword of the Avenger
as Maria Louisa
(1948) Sofia
as Linda Carlsen
(1939) The Forgotten Woman
as Anne Kennedy
(1951) Joe Santa Claus
as Ellen