Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer , born Lilli Marie Peiser, was a German actress and writer. She won the Volpi Cup, the Deutscher Filmpreis three times, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.

Palmer, who took her surname from an English actress she admired, was one of three daughters born to Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon, and Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish stage actress in Posen, Prussia, Germany . When Lilli was four her family moved to BerlinCharlottenburg. She was a junior table tennis champion as a young girl.

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