Catherine Hessling

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Personal Info

Known for

Acting

From

Moronvilliers, Marne, France

Born

6/22/1900

Age

124

Credit(s)

14

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.