Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1910-01-20 (115 years old)

Place of Birth

Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]

Joy Adamson

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name.

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Known For

Acting

1961

1948

R.U.R. as Sulla, a robotess

Writing

1966

Born Free as Book