{{Short description|German actress (1930–2024)}} {{more footnotes needed|date=March 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Renate Hoy | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Renate Anita Huy | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|12|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Ludwigshafen, Bavaria, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|07|01|1930|12|31|df=y}} | death_place = | spouse = Brett Halsey (1954–1959) (two children)<br>Raymond C. Simpson (1963–1975) (1 son)<br>? (?–1980)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/455/Renate+Hoy/index.html|title=Renate Hoy - the Private Life and Times of Renate Hoy. Renate Hoy Pictures}}</ref> | children = Charles Oliver, Jr. (b. 1956)<br>Tracy Leigh (b. 1957)<br>Richard James (b. 1967) | other_names = Erika Nordin | years_active = 1952–1959 }}
'''Renate Hoy''' (born Renate Anita Huy;<!-- sic! --> 31 December 1930 – 1 July 2024), also credited as '''Erika Nordin''', was a German actress and beauty pageant titleholder.
==Career== After winning the title of Miss Nürnberg, she was crowned Miss Germany of 1952. She then travelled to the United States to represent her country in the first Miss Universe contest, which was held in Long Beach, California where she placed fifth (fourth runner up).
Shortly thereafter, she became a contract player for Universal Studios and made several movies during the 1950s. She was in such films as ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'', ''Missile to the Moon'', ''The Golden Blade'', ''The Birds and the Bees'', ''The Sea Chase'', ''A Certain Smile'', and had a leading role in the classic German film ''Schloß Hubertus''.
==Personal life== In 1954, Hoy married actor Brett Halsey. They had two children, son Charles Oliver Hand, Jr. (a.k.a. "Rock Bottom" of the Los Angeles-based punk band Rock Bottom and the Spys) and daughter Tracy Leigh. They divorced in 1959. Charles Hand was murdered in prison while serving a 25-year sentence.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtpkCgAAQBAJ&q=%22rock+halsey%22+punk&pg=PA553|title=The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches|last=Simmonds|first=Jeremy|date=2012|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=9781613744789|language=en}}</ref>
Following a landmark 1960 Screen Actors Guild strike,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-reagan-did-for-hollywood/248391/|title=What Reagan Did for Hollywood|last=Federman|first=Wayne|date=14 November 2011|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2 December 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> Hoy retired from acting. In 1963, Hoy married prominent civil rights attorney Raymond C. Simpson. The couple had one child, musician Richard James Simpson, a member of the bands Invisiblechains and Teardrain.
Hoy died on 1 July 2024, at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web |title=Renate Anita Huy Simpson |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/renate-huy-simpson-obituary?id=55526861 |website=Legacy |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0398337}} * [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/284479606/renate-hoy Renate Hoy] at Find a Grave
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