Catherine Hessling

Known for Acting

Catherine Hessling's portrait

Details

Birthday: June 22, 1900

Deathday: September 28, 1979

Place of birth: 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.