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Catherine Hessling
Acting
Born: June 22, 1900
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.
Known For
The Little Match Girl
as Karen
Nana
as Nana
The Sad Sack
as L'institutrice
Backbiters
as Catherine Ferrand
Crime and Punishment
as Elisabeth
Whirlpool of Fate
as Virginia Rosaert
High and Low
as Mademoiselle Paula
Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rouge
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Catherine
No Image
Yvette
as Yvette
