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| birthname = Birgit Annalisa Rusanen
| othername = Martha Annalise Soderquist
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| birth_place = [[Oslo]], Norway
| occupation = Actress
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'''Marta Kristen'''
Kristen is best known for her role as Judy Robinson, the oldest child of Professor John Robinson and his wife, Maureen, in the television series ''[[Lost in Space]]'' (1965–1968). Her character was a young adult, around 20 years of age.
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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 one 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]] area while her father was on sabbatical leave from his professorship. She remained there with a guardian
== Career ==
[[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]]''.
Kristen's first film role was in the 1963 Walt Disney production of ''[[Savage Sam (film)|Savage Sam]]''. She played the role of Lorelei in the 1965 movie ''[[Beach Blanket Bingo]]''.
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Kristen has been married twice. Her first marriage was to Terry Treadwell, a psychologist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://martakristen.com/marta/magazine/in/|title=IN Magazine For the Girl of Today|website=martakristen.com|access-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://martakristen.com/marta/magazine/movieland/index.html|title=Movieland|last=DRG|website=martakristen.com|access-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> She met her second husband, Kevin P. Kane, in 1974 and they married on November 18, 1978.{{Citation needed |date=September 2022}} They lived in [[Santa Monica, California]], with two [[rescue dog]]s<ref>{{cite web |first=John |last=Beifuss |work=[[Memphis Commercial Appeal]] |title='Lost in Space' duo remember '60s sci-fi at MidSouthCon 30 |url=http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2012/mar/22/cover-story-lost-duo-remember-60s-sci-fi/ |date=March 22, 2012 |accessdate=March 26, 2012}}</ref> until 2016, when Kristen announced on her [[Facebook]] page that Kane had died.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=258215617865394&id=108591786161112|title=Marta Kristen|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref>
==Selected
* ''[[The Loretta Young Show]]'' (1960) (Season 8 Episode 7: The Glass Cage) as Bonnie
* ''[[My Three Sons]]'' (1960) (Season 1 Episode 11: The Mechanic) as Peggy Meredith (Pig) Robbie’s love interest
* ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' (1961) (Season 4 Episode 25: "Wally and Dudley") as Christine Staples
* ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' (1961) (Season 6 Episode 31: "The Gloating Place") as Marjorie Stone
* ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' (1961) (Season 7 Episode 2: "Bang! You're Dead") as Jiffy Snack Girl
* ''[[My Three Sons]]'' (1962) (Season 3 Episode 14: "Going Steady") as Linda Francis
* ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]'' (1963) (Season 2 Episode 26: "The Third Side of a Coin") as Joan Kent
* ''[[Dr. Kildare]]'' (1963) (Season 3 Episode 9: "Four Feet in the Morning") as Darleen Landon
* ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' (1963) (Season 2 Episode 9: "Four Feet in the Morning") as Darleen Landon A two-part crossover, which started on Dr. Kildare: Four Feet in the Morning (1963).
* ''[[My Three Sons]]'' (1964) (Season 5 Episode 2: "A Serious Girl") as Lorraine Pendleton
* ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (1964) (Season 1 Episode 11: "The Neptune Affair") as Felicia Lavimore
* ''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]'' (1964) (Season 1 Episode 21: "Clancy") as Billie Jo
* ''[[Mr. Novak]]'' (1964) (Season 1 Episode 30: "The Senior Prom") as Gail Andrews
* ''[[Wagon Train]]'' (1965) (Season 8 Episode 16: "The Wanda Snow Story") as Wanda Snow
* ''[[Beach Blanket Bingo]]'' (1965) (Feature Film Unrated 1h 38m) as Lorelei
* ''[[Lost in Space]]'' (1965 - 1968) (3 Seasons 84 Episodes) as Judy Robinson
* ''[[Insight (American TV series)|Insight]]'' (1969) (Season 1 Episode 317: "Is the 11:59 Late This Year?") as Chick
* ''[[The Mephisto Waltz]]'' (1971) (Feature Film R 1h 55m) as Party Guest (uncredited)
* ''[[Mannix]]'' (1965) (Season 6 Episode 15: "A Game of Shadows") as Aileen
* ''[[Terminal Island]]'' (1973) (Feature Film R 1h 28m) as Lee Phillips
* ''[[Once (1973 film)|Once]]'' (1973) (Feature Film R 1h 40m) as Humanity
* ''[[Gemini Affair]]'' (1975) (Feature Film X 1h 32m) as Julie
* ''[[Project U.F.O.]]'' (1978) (Season 1 Episode 11: "Sighting 4011: The Dollhouse Incident") as Anita
* ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'' (1980) (Feature Film PG 1h 44m) as Lux
* ''[[Remington Steele]]'' (1982) (Season 1 Episode 4: "Signed, Steeled and Delivered") as Blonde
* ''[[Fame (1982 TV series)|Fame]]'' (1985) (Season 4 Episode 17: "Danny De Bergerac") as Dede Callahan
* ''[[Trapper John, M.D.]]'' (1985) (Season 6 Episode 20: "In the Eyes of the Beholder") as Mrs. Christopher
* ''[[Wildside (American TV series)|Wildside]]'' (1985) (Season 1 Episode 3: "The Crimea of the Century") as Ellen Jonsen
* ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]'' (1987) (Season 4 Episode 14: "Rumors of My Death") as Lena Spickens
* ''[[Strange Voices]]'' (1987) (TV Movie Not Rated 1h 40m) as Mona
* ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' (1994) (Season 6 Episode 18: "Fjord Eyes Only") as Norwegian Mom
* ''[[Panic in the Park]]'' (1995) (Video Game) as Annabelle Lee
* ''[[Harvest of Fire]]'' (1996) (TV Movie PG 1h 39m) as Martha Troyer
* ''[[Below Utopia]]'' (1997) (Feature Film R 1h 28m) as Marilyn Beckett
* ''[[Lost in Space (film)|Lost in Space]]'' (1998) (Feature Film PG-13 2h 10m) as Reporter #1
* ''[[The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas]]'' (2009) (Short Film 7m) as Mrs. Ratchet(voice)
* ''[[Lost in Space: The Epilogue]]'' (2015) (Video) as Judy Robinson
* ''[[Ageless]]'' (2016) (TV Short 18m) as Phyllis
* ''[[Breaking Point (2018 film)|Breaking Point]]'' (2018) (Short) as Debby
* ''[[The Vamps Next Door]]'' (2019) (Season 6 Episode 1: "Party in the Cul-De-Sac") as Astrid
* ''[[The Vamps Next Door]]'' (2019) (Season 6 Episode 2: "Chaos in the Cul-De-Sac") as Astrid
* ''[[The Vamps Next Door]]'' (2019) (Season 6 Episode ?: "Beverly's Birthday Bash") as Astrid
* ''[[Last Day (2021 film)|Last Day]]'' (2021) (Short 16m) as Mila
* ''[[Brenda & Oliver]]'' (2022) (Short) as Brenda
* ''[[A Reluctant Heart]]'' (2022) (Feature Film - Original title: A Bachelor's Valentine) as Inez Burr
* ''[[Benny the Barnacle]]'' (2022) (Animation - Believing is Seeing Episode aired Dec 23, 2022) as Serenity Seahorse
==References==
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* [https://www.facebook.com/MartaKristenKane Facebook site (official)]
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