Catherine Hessling

Actress

Born: June 22, 1900 (79 years old)

Died: September 28, 1979

Place of birth: Moronvilliers, Marne, France

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.

Filmography (8)

• The Little Match Girl (1928, ★ 6.9)
• Nana (1926, ★ 6.6)
• Charleston Parade (1927, ★ 5.8)
• Whirlpool of Fate (1925, ★ 6.5)
• Backbiters (1927, ★ 6.4)
• The Sad Sack (1928, ★ 6.4)
• La P’tite Lili (1927, ★ 4.8)
• High and Low (1933, ★ 5)