German film, TV actress and singer Ingrid van Bergen died in her sleep at her home in Eyendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany on November 28th. She was 94. Born Ingrid Maria van Bergen on June 15, 1931, in the Free City of Danzig she was a very popular actress in the 1950s to 1970s. Her role in "Roses for the Prosecutor" from 1959 was probably her most famous part. Van Bergen worked in cabaret with the Berlin "Stachelschweinen" and filmed for cinema and television. She was also in front of the camera for Edgar Wallace film adaptations such as "The Avenger" (1960) and "The Secret of the Yellow Daffodils" (1961). In "A Town Without Pity" she co-starred with Kirk Douglas (1960). Younger viewers knew van Bergen above all as a popular reality star and winner of the RTL show "Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus!", where she became "Jungle Queen" in 2009. In 1977 she was involved in a scandal. After shooting and killing her lover, the actress spent several years in prison for manslaughter. After her release in the early 1980s, she gradually managed to re-enter the entertainment industry. Ingrid appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Legend of a Gunfighter” in1964 as Linda, and the TV shows, “Prairie-Saloon in 1964 as (Lily) and in 1972-1973’s “Stadt ohne Sheriff” as Mrs. Wallace. Ingrid was also the German voice of Sydney Rome in 1969's "Alive or Preferably Dead" starring Giuliano Gemman and Nino Benvenuti.
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