Marilyn Monroe, stage name of Norma Jean Mortenson (1926-1962), American actress, who began her race like model, to continue in the cinema, thanks to its explosive beauty, interpreting small papers as of 1948.

He had his first important paper in the asphalt jungle (1950), of John Huston, whom he followed Eva to the naked one (1950), of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Its first paper protagonist was in the horsemen prefer blondes (1953, Howard Hawks), which noncomedians would follow several films in whom Marilyn tried to break with the image of sex-symbol that was had of her: Bus Stop (1956, Joshua Logan), With skirts and to the rebellious crazy person (1959, Billy Wilder), or, mainly, Lives (1961, John Huston).

Its deprived life, that would make it more famous if it fits that his films, it were marked by his successive marriages with ídolo of the baseball, Joe DiMaggio, with the famous dramatist Arthur Miller and by his relations with the clan Kennedy. Its death, never has been clarified.