
Acting
Catherine Hessling
FR, DE cinema · 14 credits
Born
22 June 1900
Died
28 September 1979 (aged 79)
Birthplace
Moronvilliers, Marne, France
Also known as Andrée Madeleine Heuschling Hessling · Катрин Эсслинг
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
Filmography

Crime and Punishment
as Elisabeth

High and Low
as Mademoiselle Paula

Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rouge

The Pursuit of Happiness
as Catherine

The Sad Sack
as L'institutrice

La P’tite Lili
as Lili

Charleston Parade
as Parisian savage

Backbiters
as Catherine Ferrand
Yvette
1927
Yvette
as Yvette

Nana
as Nana

Whirlpool of Fate
as Virginia Rosaert




