- Appeared in U.S., Austrian, German, French, and British films.
- Studied with Max Reinhardt.
- In 1929 she starred in the first full sound film made in Germany.
- When her father took over a German theater in the USA, the whole family went to the USA where Mady Christians made her film debut with "Audrey" (24). But after the outbreak of World War I Mady Christians returned with her mother to Berlin.
- Daughter of players Bertha Klein and Rudolph Christians.
- She was born on January 19, 1892 to Rudolph Christians, who died during production of Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives and had to be replaced by a lookalike actor (Robert Edeson).
- She achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
- Married Dr. Sven von Mueller, editor of a Hamburg, Germany newspaper before coming to America in 1933.
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