Aino Bergö

Swedish actress (1915–1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aino Lillalida Bergö (commonly spelled Aino Bergo in English-language publications) (13 January 1915 – July 1944) was a Swedish ballerina, opera singer and film actress.

Life

Bergo was daughter of Otto Folke Bergö of Goteburg, Sweden, and his wife Hedwig Gulla.[1] She studied ballet in Stockholm. She performed ballet in Berlin and Munich and starred in operettas in Vienna.[2] Bergö starred in the 1936 German film Das Frauenparadies and later relocated to the United Kingdom, where producer Irving Asher helped her land a starring role in Thistledown. In 1938 in Chelsea, London Bergö married Richard Fairey, the eldest son of Sir Charles Richard Fairey, an aircraft manufacturer.[3][4] They were divorced in 1943.[3]

Bergö was killed in July 1944 at her home in Knightsbridge, London,[1] in a German flying bomb attack in southern England.[5] Her death was registered in Kensington, London.[6] Her services were held at the Swedish Church on Harcourt Street in London.

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