Jean Seberg - Early Life

Early Life

Jean Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy Arline (née Benson), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg, a druggist. Her family was Lutheran and of Swedish, English and German ancestry. Seberg studied at the University of Iowa.

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