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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Little Match Girl (1928) — Karen
2. Nana (1926) — Nana
3. Charleston Parade (1927) — Parisian savage
4. Whirlpool of Fate (1925) — Virginia Rosaert
5. La P’tite Lili (1927) — Lili
6. The Sad Sack (1928) — L'institutrice
7. Backbiters (1927) — Catherine Ferrand
8. High and Low (1933) — Mademoiselle Paula
9. Sea Fever (1927)
10. Crime and Punishment (1935) — Elisabeth
11. Coralie and Company (1934)
12. Little Red Riding Hood (1930) — Le petit chaperon rouge
13. The Pursuit of Happiness (1930) — Catherine
14. Yvette (1927) — Yvette
15. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)