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

The Little Match Girl

as Karen

Nana

as Nana

Charleston Parade

as Parisian savage

Whirlpool of Fate

as Virginia Rosaert

La P’tite Lili

The Sad Sack

as L'institutrice

Backbiters

as Catherine Ferrand

High and Low

as Mademoiselle Paula

Sea Fever

Crime and Punishment

as Elisabeth