Raina A. Mercedes Echerer is an Austrian film and stage actress, host of TV and radio shows, and politician. From 1999 to 2004 she was Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, part of the European Greens, although she was not member of the party. During her term she was member of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, and substitute for the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market. In 1994 she also hosted the Prix Ars Electronica. In 2006 she played Elmire in Moli�re's Tartuffe at the Lower Austrian state theater in St. P�lten. [More at Wikipedia]

May 16th, 1963 in Linz (Age 61)