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Inger Stevens was an United States|American movie
and television|TV actress. She was born in
Stockholm,  Sweden, on October 18, 1934 and died
in Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles,
California, on April 30, 1970.

Stevens, born Inger Stensland, was an insecure and
often ill woman. Her parents divorced while living
in Sweden and she then moved with her father to
the United States. At 16 she left home and started
to work in New York City as a showgirl in cheap
performances. At the same time she took lessons at
the Actors Studio.

Later she made commercials, smaller plays and TV
appearances, until she finally got her big chance
in the movie Man on Fire, with Bing Crosby.
Several roles in major films followed, but she had
the greatest success with her leading role in the
television series The Farmer's Daughter, and also
with roles in TV episodes of series like The
Twilight Zone, Bonanza and The Alfred Hitchcock
Hour.

Inger Stevens committed suicide in 1970 with an
overdose of sleeping pills. It became then known
that from 1961 to her death she had been married
to Ike Jones, a black American actor. Her first
husband was Anthony Soglio, with whom she was
married from 1955 to 1957.


Dated Burt Reynolds shortly before her suicide in
1970.  To this day Burt Reynolds politely refuses
to discuss any aspect of his relationship with
Stevens.
==External link==
*http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0828447/ Inger Stevens
at the Internet Movie Database