1926Nominee
Best Performance
Nana
Catherine Hessling
Actor
Moronvilliers, Marne, France
June 22, 1900
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1927Nominee
Best Performance
Backbiters
1935Nominee
Best Performance
Crime and Punishment
Career Highlights
1925Highlight
Best Performance
Whirlpool of Fate
1927Highlight
Best Performance
La P’tite Lili