Biography
Rutanya Alda, born Rūta Skrastiņa on 13 October 1942 in Riga, Latvia, is a Latvian-American actress. She spent seven years in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the Second World War before her family settled in the United States. Alda studied economics at Northern Arizona University and later trained as an actor with Barbara Loden and Paul Mann in New York City.
She began her screen career in the late 1960s. Alda is known for her supporting role as Angela in The Deer Hunter (1978), as well as appearances in Rocky II (1979), Mommie Dearest (1981) as Carol Ann, and Amityville II: The Possession (1982) as Dolores Montelli. She has also worked extensively in television, including episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Blue Bloods.
