Elga Andersen
Helga Hymen
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Born Helga Hymen in Dortmund, she was the only child of a civil-engineer father who disappeared on the Eastern Front during World II. After leaving school at sixteen she supported her mother as an English- and French-language interpreter, and at eighteen moved to Paris to work as a model, a step that led to film work. Her screen debut came in André Hunebelle’s 1957 French film Les Collegiennes…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
