On January 24, the 34 year old became the first Cuban actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in a leading role for playing Norma Jeane Mortenson in Netflix's Blonde. Prior to her nomination ...

Norma Jean Mortenson is only 34, but she can well remember the revulsion that used to be the almost universal reaction to ills of the mind. Her mother was in and out of mental hospitals ...

Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson) was an American actress and model. She rose to fame as a pin-up model in the 1940s before pivoting to acting. Monroe was known for playing blonde ...

Marilyn Monroe is her stage name: her name given at birth was Norma Jean Mortenson (but her mother changed her name to Baker almost immediately). She had two other siblings. The publication ...

Marilyn Monroe is easily the most iconic woman of 20th Century Hollywood. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson and raised in Los Angeles, Marilyn reached the height of fame in Hollywood, leaving behind the ...

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926, she had a heartbreaking childhood before bursting into the world of pin-up modelling and eventually, Hollywood. Although she only acted for about a decade ...

Based on the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal's tribute to Norma Jeane Mortenson, these Cuban filmmakers link the actresses' overdose/suicide to patriarchy, exploitation, and many of the ills of ...