Marion Michael

Marion Michael

actress

Marion Michael was born on Oct 17, 1940 in Russia]. Marion Michael's big-screen debut came with Liane, Jungle Goddess directed by Eduard von Borsody in 1956.

Marion Michael was born as Marion Ilonka Michaela Delonge in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1940. Her father was a doctor. The last months of the war she spent together with her mother and her four-year older brother on Hiddensee, a small island in the Baltic Sea. After the war, the family moved to Berlin where Marion attended a secondary school. As a ten-year-old, she made her stage debut in little theatre and was taught classical dance in the ballet school of Tatjana Gsovsky. When she was only 15, she was selected out of allegedly 12,000 entries for the lead in Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald/Liane, Jungle Goddess (Eduard von Borsody, 1956). This adventure film was largely shot on location in Africa.

  • Birthday

    Oct 17, 1940
  • Place of Birth

    Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany [now Kaliningrad, Russia]

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