Greta Peck (January 25, 1911, Helsinki

Helsinki

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 – January 19, 2008, Beverly Hills, California

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) was a Finnish-American real estate broker and first wife of Hollywood actor Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

. Her first husband was Charles Rice.

The Kukkonen family emigrated to the United States

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 in 1913. She eventually changed her first name Eine to Greta.

She married Peck in 1942 and divorced him in 1955. They had three sons: Jonathan, Stephen and Carey.

Greta Peck owned a beauty salon

Beauty salon

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 and an estate

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 agency and was active in charitable causes, raising money for Finnish

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 World War II

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 veterans. Due to those activities, she received the Order of the White Rose

Order of the White Rose

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 from the Finnish Government in 1967. She was also a member of the Finnish-American Chamber of Commerce and received an honorary doctorate from Finlandia University

Finlandia University

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in 1994.