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Catherine Hessling
Person

Catherine Hessling

Specialty
Acting
Birth
June 22, 1900 · 79 years
Death
September 28, 1979
Origin
Moronvilliers, Marne, France

Technical Alias

Andrée Madeleine Heuschling HesslingКатрин Эсслинг

Professional Trajectory

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.

Registered Filmography