Anna Kashfi
Date of Birth
Anna Kashfi was an actress best known for her role in the film The Mountain. During filming she met her future husband, Marlon Brando, in the Paramount commissary. She and Brando married in October of 1957 and divorced in April of 1959; together they had a son, Christian.
The Mountain starred Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner; Kashfi played a Hindu woman who survives an airplane crash in the French Alps. It would be just one of several times she would perform a role which played to the strengths of her ethnically ambiguous looks.
She also played a Korean teacher in the 1957 film Battle Hymn, starring Rock Hudson; a Mexican in the 1958 film Cowboy, starring Glenn Ford; and she was the African-American wife of singer Nat King Cole in 1959’s Night of the Quarter Moon, starring Julie London and John Drew Barrymore.
Anna Kashfi was an actress best known for her role in the film The Mountain. During filming she met her future husband, Marlon Brando, in the Paramount commissary. She and Brando married in October of 1957 and divorced in April of 1959; together they had a son, Christian.
The Mountain starred Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner; Kashfi played a Hindu woman who survives an airplane crash in the French Alps. It would be just one of several times she would perform a role which played to the strengths of her ethnically ambiguous looks.
She also played a Korean teacher in the 1957 film Battle Hymn, starring Rock Hudson; a Mexican in the 1958 film Cowboy, starring Glenn Ford; and she was the African-American wife of singer Nat King Cole in 1959’s Night of the Quarter Moon, starring Julie London and John Drew Barrymore.
Kashfi also appeared in the television series Adventures in Paradise, The Deputy, Bronco and Kraft Mystery Theater.
She died August 16, 2015, in Woodland, Washington. She was 80.
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