Background
She was greatly affected by her mother"s abandonment when her mother left her father for Italian director Roberto Rossellini.
She was greatly affected by her mother"s abandonment when her mother left her father for Italian director Roberto Rossellini.
Her half-brother, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, was born on 7 February 1950, and her mother married Roberto Rossellini on 24 May 1950. On 18 June 1952, Lindström"s twin half-sisters Isabella Rossellini and Isotta Rossellini were born. Lindström began her broadcasting career as a reporter at KGO-television in San Francisco in 1966 and in 1971 went to WCBS-television in New York City.
From 1973 to 1997, she was a news anchorwoman and also a theater and arts critic for W National Broadcasting Company-television in New York City, and made television appearances and did some acting (in mostly Italian films) before she became a news correspondent.
She is now retired.