Biography: Hedy Lamarr

Birth Name: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler

Birth Date: November 9, 1914

Birth Place: Vienna, Austria

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age.

After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from he...