Mireille Balin

Known for ActingBorn 1909-07-19Died 1968-11-09Monte Carlo, Monaco

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Land of Fire

Immediate Call

Weaker Sex

La dernière chevauchée

Haut le vent

Captain Benoit

Malaria

The Woman I Loved the Most

Gunshot

Vive la compagnie

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Fromont Young and Risler Elder

Pépé le Moko

Cas de conscience

Golden Venus

Marie des angoisses

Vive la classe

Lady Killer

Gambling Hell

Si j'étais le patron

L'assassin a peur la nuit

Threats

The Siege of the Alcazar

Le Roman d'un spahi

Don Quixote

We Found a Naked Woman

Girls of Paris

Naples Under the Kiss of Fire

The Trump Card