'Kristina Söderbaum' (
Stockholm,
Sweden September 51912 -
Hitzacker,
Germany February 122001) was a Swedish-born
German film actress, producer and photographer. From
1935, she starred in a number of films with her husband, director
Veit Harlan. During World War II she acted in several works of Nazi propaganda, including the anti-semitic historical melodrama
Jud Süß. Due to her tendency to commit suicide by drowning in those films, she earned the nickname ''Reichswasserleiche'' (Official Drowned Body of the Reich). After the war Söderbaum became a noted fashion photographer. In
1983 she wrote an autobiography ''Nichts bleibt immer so''. Her last film was with
Hugh Grant in the thriller ''Night Train to Venice'' in
1994.
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