
Mireille Balin
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-07-19
Day of Death
1968-11-09 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Mireille Balin
Biography
Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris) was a French-Italian actress.
Balin was born near Monte Carlo. Her father, Charles Balin, was a French newspaper publisher. Her mother was Italian. Her education came at finishing schools. She was a policewoman in Paris until friends urged her to take a screen test.
Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films. Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis. During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 1945. She retired from film in 1947.
Balin arrived in Hollywood in 1937 with a staff of servants and with 28 trunks containing "most of her worldly possessions.
During the final 10 years of her life she lived in a "charitable home". Balin died in 1968, aged 59.
Known For
Acting
(2011)
Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
as Self (archival footage)
(1947)
La dernière chevauchée
as Louise Valérian
(1943)
(1942)
L'assassin a peur la nuit
as Lola Gracieuse
(1942)
Haut le vent
as Gisèle Esteban
(1942)
The Trump Card
as Bella Score
(1942)
The Woman I Loved the Most
as Claude's wife
(1942)
Gambling Hell
as Mireille
(1941)
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
as Sidonie Chèbe
(1940)
Threats
as Denise
(1940)
The Siege of the Alcazar
as Carmen Herrera
(1939)
(1939)
Land of Fire
as Georgette
(1939)
Gunshot
as Countess Vilma Isopolska
(1939)
(1938)
Captain Benoit
as Véra Agatcheff
(1938)
Golden Venus
as Judith
(1937)
Pépé le Moko
as Gaby, the Parisian
(1937)
Lady Killer
as Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
(1937)
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as Assunta
(1936)
Girls of Paris
as Gine
(1936)
Le Roman d'un spahi
as Cora
(1935)
Marie des angoisses
as Marie
(1934)
We Found a Naked Woman
as Denise
(1934)
Vive la compagnie
as Lilette
(1934)
Si j'étais le patron
as Marcelle
(1933)
Le sexe faible
as Nicole
(1933)
Don Quixote
as The Niece
(1932)