Norvind was the daughter of Russian prince Paul Vernstad née Chegodayef Sakonsky and Finnish sculptor Johanna Kajanus, who won the bronze medal for sculpture at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937).
[citation needed] In 1962, Norvind moved to Canada and then to New York City, where at the age of 18 she worked as a Playboy Bunny and a Can-Can dancer.
[citation needed] Norvind was the object of controversy in Mexico, when on the highly censored national television she spoke in defense of birth control.
[citation needed] In 1999, John McTiernan hired Norvind to coach Rene Russo for her assertive sexual image in The Thomas Crown Affair for which she got screen credit.
[citation needed] At the time of her death, she was writing, directing and producing a documentary about severely disabled Mexican actor and musician José Flores, entitled Born Without.