The Resume

(September 5, 1912-February 12, 2001)
Born in Stockholm, Sweden
Birth name was Beata Margareta Kristina Soderbaum
Appeared in the films 'Jugend' ('Youth,' 1938), 'The Immortal Heart' (1939), 'Jud Suss' ('The Jew Suss,' 1940), 'Der grosse Konig' ('The Great King,' 1942), 'Die goldene Stadt' ('The Golden City,' 1942), 'Opfergang' ('The Great Sacrifice,' 1944), 'Kolberg' (1945), 'Hanna Amon' (1951), 'Circus Girl' (1953), 'The Maharajah's Blonde' (1962), 'Karl May' (1976), 'Let's Go Crazy' (1988) and 'Night Train to Vienna' (1996)

Why she might be annoying:

Most of her screen appearances were in films directed by her husband, Veit Harlan.
She appeared in several Nazi propaganda films, most notoriously 'Jud Suss,' a film so antisemitic, it was made required viewing for the SS.
After WWII, she claimed she had been forced to make propaganda films, but she had actually campaigned to be cast in 'Jud Suss.'
Her characters committed suicide by drowning so often, she was dubbed Reichswasserleiche (the National Drowned Corpse).
'The Guardian' claimed that in interviews she came off as 'none too bright.'

Why she might not be annoying:

Her father Henrik was a prominent scientist who headed the committee that handed out the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
She was one of the few leading ladies in Nazi Germany who did not sleep with Joseph Goebbels.
After Harlan's death (1964), she largely retired from films and started a second career as a fashion photographer.
'The Guardian' wrote that she avoided 'the agitated defensiveness' of Leni Riefenstahl.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 38]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [September] (Ranked: 9051912)
• I am from Stockholm, Sweden
• I Converted to Catholicism
• I Died in 2001 (Ranked: 88)
• IDs Ending in 00 (Ranked: 31800)
• Known By a Middle Name
• My Character Was Fictionally Raped
• Photographers
• Profiles 31751-32000 (Ranked: 31800)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 26.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 24 Votes: 83.33% Annoying