Nina, Baroness van Pallandt

Nina, Baroness van Pallandt
Born	Nina Magdelene Møller-Hasselbalch 15 July 1932 (1932-07-15) (age 79) Denmark
Years active	1958-1988

Nina, Baroness van Pallandt (born 15 July 1932) is a Danish singer and actress.

Personal life

Born Nina Magdelene Møller-Hasselbalch, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt in 1960. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children:^[1]

• Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (10 June 1961–2006^{[citation needed]}), a film writer, director and painter.
• Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt, born 9 August 1963.
• Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt, born 30 October 1965.

They parted in 1969 and divorced in 1975.^[2] In the early 1990s, Frederik van Pallandt settled in the Philippines. He joined a major Australian crime syndicate, providing transportation for drug trafficking and, in 1994, was shot dead.^[3]

In the early 1970s, Nina van Pallandt was romantically linked to fellow Ibiza resident Clifford Irving.^[4] In the 2006 film, The Hoax, about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy. The film starred Richard Gere, who appeared with Nina Van Pallandt in one of his earliest films, American Gigolo. Nina now lives in Barcelona, Spain

Media appearances

She also appeared in several Robert Altman films during the 1970s, including The Long Goodbye, A Wedding, and Quintet. In 1969, she contributed the song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" to the James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby. During the early 1970s she appeared as a guest on several episodes of "The Morecambe & Wise Show" for BBC television

References

1. ^ Info on Nina Van Pallandt
2. ^ IMDb biodata
3. ^ Sydney Morning Herald, 16 December 2006, "Drug tsar uses silence in fight to keep villa"
4. ^ "Enter the Baroness Nina". LIFE (Time, Inc.) (11 February 1972): 30–39. 1972. ISSN 0024-3019. http://books.google.com/books?id=E0AEAAAAMBAJ. 

External links

• Nina Van Pallandt at the Internet Movie Database
• Dansk Film Database

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Name	Van Pallandt, Nina
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Date of birth	15 July 1932
Place of birth	Denmark
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