Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress, inventor, and film producer. She appeared in 30 films over a 28-year career in Europe and the United States, and co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication, originally intended for torpedo guidance.Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and acted in a number of Austrian, German, and Czech films in her brief early film career, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933). In 1937, she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, secretly moving to Paris and then on to London. There, she met Louis B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hedy Lamarr has received more than 14,155,116 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Hedy Lamarr is the 96th most popular actor (down from 95th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 64th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Actor.

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. She is most famous for her role in the film "Ecstasy" and for inventing a frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedoes.