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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1900-06-22 (124 years old)

Place of Birth

Moronvilliers, Marne, France

Catherine Hessling

Biography:

Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.

Known For

Acting

1978

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)

1935

1934

1933

High and Low as Mademoiselle Paula

1930

Little Red Riding Hood as Le petit chaperon rouge

1928

The Sad Sack as L'institutrice

1927

Charleston Parade as Parisian savage
Backbiters as Catherine Ferrand
Yvette as Yvette

1926

Nana as Nana

1925

Whirlpool of Fate as Virginia Rosaert