Early life Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, on November 9th, 1914, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (today’s Austria), into an upper class, culturally rich family, where she was the only child of Emil Kiesler, a successful bank director from a Galician Jewish family and Gertrud “Trude” Kiesler (née Lichtwitz) a Hungarian Jewish concert pianist, who […]