She was born to Indonesian father Kanjeng Raden Mas Arjo Soetarjo Soerjosoemarno and Dutch mother Dolly Zegerius.
Marini was born in Malang, East Java, on 2 November 1947, the daughter of a Javanese nobleman, Kanjeng Raden Mas Arjo Soetarjo Soerjosoemarno, and a Dutch-Jewish woman,[1] Dolly Zegerius.
In 1962,[4] during the lead-up to the Games of the New Emerging Forces, when her uncle bought her the opportunity to sing two songs on TVRI.
[4] She continued her career with such films as Kenangan Desember (1976), Marina (1977), Terminal Cinta (1977), and Sejuta Duka Ibu (1977).
[citation needed] In 2003 she was a supporting actress in the sinetron (soap opera) Doa dan Anugerah 2.