| Name |
Anna Kashfi |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
Anglo-Indian |
| Date of Birth |
30-September-1934 |
| Place of Birth |
Darjeeling, British India |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Anna Kashfi is an Anglo-Indian former film actress, who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s and is best known for having been married to Marlon Brando. She worked as a waitress in Cardiff and in a butcher shop before moving to London, where she became a model. The actress made her debut screen appearance using the stage name Anna Kashfi as a Hindu girl in The Mountain (1956) for Paramount with Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner.
In her next film she co-starred with Rock Hudson as a Korean girl in Battle Hymn (1957). This was followed by Cowboy (1958) with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon in which she played a Mexican. Her next and last film during this period was Night of the Quarter Moon (1959). She made a few appearances on television, including the series Adventures in Paradise, though drug and alcohol problems reportedly contributed to the premature end of her acting career.
Kashfi married Marlon Brando on October 11, 1957, and they were divorced on April 22, 1959. She had met Brando in the summer of 1956 and dated all through that year and all through 1957. According to The New York Times (October 14, 1957), though Kashfi's parents had been identified as the O'Callaghans, she did not identify them as her parents on her marriage license, instead stating that her father was Devi Kashfi and her mother was Selma Ghose; a friend of the bride stated that Kashfi's purported Indian father had died six weeks before the Brandos wedding.
