Helga Liné

One of many German children who took refuge in Portugal during World War 2, she starred in Porto de Abrigo (1941), then had a career as a circus acrobat and, later, a vaudeville artist until movies took her through Europe--Spain, France and ultimately her motherland, Germany.

[on acting in movies in the 60s and 70s] At the time I was a single mother with two children. I would read a script and say okay.