# Marta Kristen: Adopted From a Secret Wartime Orphanage and Became a Sci-Fi Icon

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Podcast: [Classic Conversations: Pop culture Interviews with Jeff Dwoskin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/classic-conversations-pop-culture-interviews-with-jeff-dwoskin-429871)
Published: 2026-07-13T04:00:00+00:00
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Marta Kristen spent three seasons drifting through the stars as Judy Robinson on Lost in Space, but her real story started years earlier in a hidden wartime orphanage in Norway. In this conversation, she traces her adoption into a Michigan family, the chance encounter in a Santa Monica deli that launched her Hollywood career, and the wild shift her most famous show took once a certain caped crusader hit the airwaves. She also opens up about a devastating wildfire that took her home and her nearly finished memoir, and the unexpected new chapter of love she's found in the years since.

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