Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 19, 1909
Died
Nov 09, 1968
Place of Birth
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Credits
29 titles
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
Filmography
Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
Self (archival footage)
La dernière chevauchée
Louise Valérian
Malaria
Haut le vent
Gisèle Esteban
The Trump Card
Bella Score
L'assassin a peur la nuit
Lola Gracieuse
Gambling Hell
Mireille
The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude's wife
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Sidonie Chèbe
Threats
Denise
The Siege of the Alcazar
Carmen Herrera
Immediate Call
Cas de conscience
Gunshot
Countess Vilma Isopolska
Land of Fire
Georgette
Captain Benoit
Véra Agatcheff
Golden Venus
Judith
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Assunta
Lady Killer
Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
Pépé le Moko
Gaby, the Parisian
Girls of Paris
Gine
Le Roman d'un spahi
Cora
Marie des angoisses
Marie
Si j'étais le patron
Marcelle
We Found a Naked Woman
Denise
Vive la compagnie
Lilette
Don Quixote
The Niece
Weaker Sex
Nicole
Vive la classe