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Kristen was born '''Birgit Annalisa Rusanen''' in [[Oslo]], Norway, to a Finnish mother and a German soldier father who was killed during [[World War II]]. (Her Finnish mother gave up little Birgit to save her the pain of growing up knowing her real parents were part of the Nazi regime or Third Reich.) Birgit spent her first years in an orphanage in Norway,<ref>{{Citation|last=Mad Bros Media|title=LOST IN SPACE 50th Anniversary Interview FEATURING MARK GODDARD & MARTA KRISTEN|date=August 15, 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXId4Sznav8&t=3m40s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/rXId4Sznav8 |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|location=4th GalactiCon, Seattle 2015|accessdate=September 8, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and was then adopted in 1949 by a couple from [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]], Harold Oliver Soderquist,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/57553/1936-commencement.pdf?sequence=1|title=University of Minnesota COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION WINTER QUARTER|page=45}}</ref> and his wife, Bertha,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://martakristen.com/marta/magazine/elokuva16/index.htm|title=Elokuva-Aitta 16|website=martakristen.com|access-date=September 9, 2017}}</ref> who renamed her '''Martha Annalise Soderquist'''. Her adoptive father was a professor of education at [[Wayne State University|Wayne University]], also in Detroit.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://martakristen.com/marta/magazine/tvguide/index.html|title=Norwegian Cinderella|website=martakristen.com|access-date=September 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Soderquist|first=Harold|title=Personalistic Naturalism and the Ends of Education |date=January 1, 1954|journal=Educational Theory|language=en|volume=4|issue=1|pages=49–53|doi=10.1111/j.1741-5446.1954.tb01080.x|issn=1741-5446}}</ref> Kristen has aone brother, whom her parents also adopted.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://martakristen.com/marta/magazine/tvpicture/index.html|title=TV Picture Life - November 1966|website=martakristen.com|access-date=September 9, 2017}}</ref>

In 1959, Kristen moved to the [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]area whenwhile her father was on asabbatical sabbaticalleave from his professorship. She remained there, with a guardian, and is a graduategraduated offrom [[Santa Monica High School]].<ref name=":0" />

[[File:MARTA KRISTEN & TOMMY KIRK in Savage Sam.jpg|thumb|260px|Kristen and [[Tommy Kirk]] in ''[[Savage Sam (film)|Savage Sam]]'']] [[File:Marta-Kristen-actress-in-2018.jpg|Marta Kristen in 2018|alt=A photo of Marta Kristen in 2018.|thumb|right]] Reflecting her Scandinavian heritage, Kristen adopted the more European-sounding "Marta" and used Marta Kristen as her stage name.<ref name=":2" /> She first appeared in a 1961 episode of ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', "Bang! You're Dead", alongside [[Bill Mumy|Billy Mumy]], who later co-starred with Kristen in ''Lost in Space''. In 1963, she starred with [[Tony Dow]] in "Four Feet in the Morning," an episode of ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. and as Peggy Meredith on ''[[My Three Sons]]''.