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Biography

She was born Éva Klein in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish father and Catholic mother. Her father died during the war, and her mother changed the family surname to avoid detection by the Nazis. She won a beauty contest after the war. She and her husband fled Hungary following the 1956 uprising and moved to Hollywood in 1960. James H. Nicholson of

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put her under contract and changed her name to "Eva Six". She appeared in a number of films before retiring. After retiring from acting, she and her husband, architect Roy Schmidt, moved back to Budapest, where she died in the early 2000s; she was reported as having died "a few years ago" by the time of Roy Schmidt's death in 2006, as published on his obituary in ''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Six, Eva 1937 births 2000s deaths Year of death uncertain Hungarian film actresses Jewish Hungarian actors Hungarian emigrants to the United States American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Actresses from Budapest Actresses from Los Angeles 21st-century American women