Actor

Catherine Hessling

Birthday: June 22, 1900

Born in: Moronvilliers, Marne, France

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.

Movie Credits

Crime and Punishment (1935) as Elisabeth
Age: 34
Coralie and Company (1934)
Age: 33
High and Low (1933) as Mademoiselle Paula
Age: 33
The Pursuit of Happiness (1930) as Catherine
Age: 29
Little Red Riding Hood (1930) as Le petit chaperon rouge
Age: 29
The Sad Sack (1928) as L'institutrice
Age: 28
The Little Match Girl (1928) as Karen
Age: 27
Yvette (1927) as Yvette
Age: 27
Sea Fever (1927)
Age: 27
Backbiters (1927) as Catherine Ferrand
Age: 27
La P’tite Lili (1927)
Age: 27
Charleston Parade (1927) as Parisian savage
Age: 26
Nana (1926) as Nana
Age: 26
Whirlpool of Fate (1925) as Virginia Rosaert
Age: 24