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- Birth nameZinta Valda Ziemelis
- Cynthia Lynn was born on April 2, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. She was an actress, known for Hogan's Heroes (1965), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and Mission: Impossible (1966). She died on March 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- ChildrenAnthony Tutini
- ParentsAlisa
- Retired in the mid-'70s and co-wrote her autobiography, "Escape to Freedom: A Biography of Cynthia Lynn", in 2002, in which she admitted an affair with Hogan's Heroes (1965) star Bob Crane during the run of the first season in which she appeared. She also exposed her onetime relationship with Marlon Brando, whom she appeared with in Bedtime Story (1964), that produced daughter Lisa.
- Starred as Fraulein Helga on the first season of Hogan's Heroes (1965). She returned to the show later on in a couple of different roles.
- Her family migrated to the U.S. from her native Riga, Latvia, following WWII.
- Lynn was romantically involved with actor Marlon Brando. After Brando's death in 2004, Lynn's daughter, Lisa, claimed that her mother and Brando's short-lived affair resulted in her birth in 1964.
- At age eight, she and her mother, Alisa, fled the country prior to the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 during World War II, eventually arriving in the United States in 1950.
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