In 1947, as a teenager, Anna Kashfi moved to small residential street in Cardiff with her family.
Born Joan O’Callaghan in Calcutta in 1934, Kashfi worked in the city as a waitress and in a butcher's shop.
With a relatively normal childhood in the capital, little did Kashfi know that just 10 years after moving to Cardiff she would end up married to acting legend Marlon Brando.
Their shortlived marriage was described as "violent", ended in divorce, led to a bitter 15-year custodial battle over their son and, when Brando died, Kashfi said he ruined her life.
After growing up on Newfoundland Road, Kashfi eventually moved to London where she became a model.
She later went on to become a Hollywood actress, starring in films such as The Mountain with Spencer Tracey, Battle Hymn with Rock Hudson, Cowboy with Jack Lemmon, and Night of the Quarter Moon.
Kashfi claimed she was of Indian descent and changed her name at the behest of a London modelling agency.
In her 1979 autobiography Brando for Breakfast, she claimed to be half-Indian through an Indian biological father but her London-born parents were adamant she was their daughter.
In 1956 Kashfi met Brando at Paramount Studios when filming a role for a Hollywood film.
After a brief romance and an unplanned pregnancy the couple married in Brando's aunt's front room.
In 2015 the Daily Express reported that Brando once described his first wife as "probably the most beautiful women I've ever known".
But the stormy marriage only lasted 11 months.
Anna filed for divorce in 1959 after claims that Brando had cheated on her and abused her. Brando said she was unfit to look after their son and a custody battle ensued.
The rows over custody continued until Christian was 12, when Anna had him kidnapped and whisked off to a tent camp in Mexico.
He was later found frightened and suffering from bronchitis, which meant Brando won sole custody.
Christian turned to crime and eventually ended up behind bars for shooting his half-sister's boyfriend. He died of pneumonia in 2008 .
When Brando died in 2004 aged 80, Kashfi didn't join in with the tributes that poured in from around the world.
Speaking to the South Wales Echo at the time, she said: "Marlon ruined my life.
"The world may be mourning the loss of a brilliant actor but personally he was a monster.
"The only good that's come out of his passing is that Christian (the couple's son) and I can now meet again openly and I can give him some of the love that has been missing all these years."
At the time Kashfi was living in a trailer park near San Diego, California.
She added: "The last time I spoke with Marlon was eight years [1996] ago and he snarled 'Leave Christian alone, don't visit him in prison or when he gets out.'"
Having lived for much of her late life in San Diego, Kashfi died on August 21 2015 in Kalama, Washington.
