# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hedy-lamarr
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:49:25.103Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/hedy-lamarr"
name: "Hedy Lamarr"
slug: "hedy-lamarr"
description: "She played Delilah in one of Hollywood's biggest hits, but the radio guidance system she co-invented during the war — frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum tech — became foundational to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi decades later."
tagline: "Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hedy_Lamarr_in_The_Heavenly_Body_1944.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1914-11-09"
deathDate: "2000-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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  country:  33
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Hedwig Kiesler in Austria, she made early films in Czechoslovakia, including the erotic Ecstasy in 1933, then fled her first husband and slipped to Paris before landing in London. Louis B. Mayer offered her Hollywood, and she became a star with Algiers in 1938, followed by Boom Town, White Cargo, and the massive religious epic Samson and Delilah in 1949. At the start of World War II, she and composer George Antheil co-invented a Secret Communication System for Allied torpedoes — spread spectrum and frequency hopping designed to resist jamming by the Axis. The military didn't use similar technology until 1962, three years after their patent expired, but the principles became foundational for secure wireless networking, including Bluetooth and early Wi-Fi. She made her last film in 1958 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.