Trivia

Some sources says she was born on April 2 1905.

Blonde supporting actress of the 1920's and 30's, frequently associated with the films of director Georg Jacoby. Retired in 1951 and later worked for a law firm in Hamburg under the name Elisabeth Biermann.

The actress Elga Brink completed an acting training and appeared regularly in movies since the middle of the 20's.

After her retirement in 1951, Brink remarried and worked as a clerk in Hamburg until her death in 1985.

After silent films, Brink continued acting in sound films until her retirement in 1951.

Her second husband was the director Georg Jacoby, who divorced her and married actress Marika Rökk.

Brink rose to prominence in the early 1920s, when she starred in many silent films.

She was born Elisabeth Margarete Frey, but shortly after her birth, her surname was changed to Brink.

After the Second World War Elga Brink worked on the stage until she retired in 1951. She then worked as a clerk at a law firm in Hamburg until her death in 1985.

Brink attended a business school before being introduced to silent films by Albert Pommer, the brother of Erich Pommer.

She was the daughter of a banker in Berlin-Waidmannslust.

After several more films, Brink rose to prominence as an actress in the 1924 movie Quo Vadis. Although the tapes of the movie were considered lost, in 2012, Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported that a copy of the film was found in the Vatican Film Library.