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Mirjam Novero

Finnish actress (1915–1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ17382626 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mirjam Novero (1915–1996) was a Finnish film actress. She was the wife of the director Edvin Laine, who directed many of the notable films she starred in, including the five films named below.

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Bibliography

Soila, Tytti. The Cinema of Scandinavia. Wallflower Press, 2005.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mirjam Novero” as finnish actress (1915–1996). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mirjam, Novero and Finnish.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915, 1996, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mirjam, Novero and Finnish providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mirjam Novero”, the useful work is to connect “finnish actress (1915–1996)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17382626. The first chronological checks are 1915, 1996 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mirjam Novero” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.