AKA: Ina Rosenberg
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 11/12/1937
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Death Date: 06/20/1990
Attractive dark-haired former model who appeared in "The Black Orchid" (1959), "From the Terrace" (1960) and "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965). Balin may be best remembered for starring as herself in the autobiographical TV movie "The Children of An Lac" (1980), about her dramatic rescue efforts to help 217 Vietnamese orphans flee Saigon as it fell in 1975, followed by her adoption, as a single mother, of three girls from An Lac. Also an art dealer (in the early 1960s) and a published photographer.
Made professional debut on "The Perry Como Show"
1957
Broadway debut in "Compulsion"
1959
Screen acting debut in "The Black Orchid"
1969
First visited the An Lac orphanage in while on an entertainment tour of Vietnam
1980
First credit as associate producer, "The Children of An Lac" (also star and story)
