Nina van Pallandt
| Nina, Baroness van Pallandt | |
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Nina van Pallandt in 1970 | |
| Born |
Nina Magdelene Møller-Hasselbalch 15 July 1932 Denmark |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1958–1988 |
Nina, Baroness van Pallandt, born Nina Magdelena Møller on 15 July 1932, is a Danish singer and actress.
Personal life
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She married Thorvald Théodore William Hugo Wessel on 11 August 1955.
On 21 September 1960, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children :[1]
- Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (10 June 1961 – 13 October 2006[2]), a film writer, director and painter.
- Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt (born 9 August 1963)
- Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt (born 30 October 1965)
The couple parted in 1969 and divorced in 1975.[3] In the early 1990s, Frederik van Pallandt settled in the Philippines. He and his Filipino girlfriend, Susannah, were shot dead in 1994.[4]
In the early 1970s, van Pallandt was romantically linked to Clifford Irving.[5] In the 2006 film, The Hoax, about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy. The film starred Richard Gere, who appeared with Nina Van Pallandt in one of his earliest films, American Gigolo.
She was also married briefly to Robert Kirby, a South African satirist in the 1970s.[6]
She now lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Media appearances
Nina also appeared in several Robert Altman films during the 1970s, including The Long Goodbye, A Wedding, and Quintet. In 1969, she sang John Barry and Hal David's song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" in the James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby. During 1969 and the early 1970s she appeared as a guest on several episodes of The Morecambe & Wise Show for BBC television, and in the later 1988 Tales of the Unexpected episode "A Time to Die".
References
- ↑ Descendants of Baron Jacob Adolph van Pallandt (4 generations) at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 August 2008). Worldroots.com. Retrieved on 28 October 2013.
- ↑ (Dutch) Nicolas van Pallandt. Bdnwiki.nl. Retrieved on 28 October 2013.
- ↑ Biography for Nina van Pallandt. IMDb
- ↑ Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 2006, "Drug tsar uses silence in fight to keep villa".
- ↑ "Enter the Baroness Nina". LIFE. Time, Inc. (11 February 1972): 30–39. 1972. ISSN 0024-3019.
- ↑ Obituary: Robert Kirby. Guardian. 27 March 2007.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nina van Pallandt. |
- Nina Van Pallandt at the Internet Movie Database
- Dansk Film Database profile (Danish)