Catherine Hessling
Acting1900Moronvilliers, 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
Acting History
1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TVas Self (archive footage)
1935
Crime and Punishment
as Elisabeth
1933
High and Low
as Mademoiselle Paula
1930
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Catherine
Little Red Riding Hood
as Le petit chaperon rouge
1928
The Little Match Girl
as Karen
The Sad Sack
as L'institutrice
1927
1926
Nana
as Nana
1925
Whirlpool of Fate
as Virginia Rosaert