Every European country seemed to have a young, glamorous international actress in the 1960s. France had Catherine Deneuve, Italy had Sophia Loren, and Great Britain gave us Julie Christie. And then there was Elke Sommer, representin' Deutschland! :-)
Born Elke Schletz in Berlin, Germany, Elke Sommer grew up in the Bavarian town of Erlangen and moved to England as a teenager, where she was discovered by move director Vittorio De Sica. She won recognition for her work in 1964's The Prize, with Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson. Other movies in which she appeared include The Venetian Affair and The Swiss Conspiracy, as well as the second Pink Panther movie, A Shot in the Dark. She even performed successfully as a singer on the side!
More recently, Elke Sommer has concentrated more on painting than on acting, finding yet another artistic muse with which to express herself. She lives in Los Angeles now, and she turns seventy in November 2010.
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