Known For
Acting
Known Credits
29
Gender
Female
Birthday
July 19, 1909 (116 years old)
Place of Birth
Monte 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.
| 2011 | Love and Sex under Nazi Occupationas Self (archival footage) | |
| 1947 | La dernière chevauchéeas Louise Valérian | |
| 1943 | Malariaas | |
| 1942 | Haut le ventas Gisèle Esteban | |
| 1942 | L'assassin a peur la nuitas Lola Gracieuse | |
| 1942 | The Trump Cardas Bella Score | |
| 1942 | Gambling Hellas Mireille | |
| 1942 | The Woman I Loved the Mostas Claude's wife | |
| 1941 | Fromont Young and Risler Elderas Sidonie Chèbe | |
| 1940 | Threatsas Denise | |
| 1940 | The Siege of the Alcazaras Carmen Herrera | |
| 1939 | Immediate Callas | |
| 1939 | Cas de conscienceas | |
| 1939 | Gunshotas Countess Vilma Isopolska | |
| 1939 | Land of Fireas Georgette | |
| 1938 | Captain Benoitas Véra Agatcheff | |
| 1938 | Golden Venusas Judith | |
| 1937 | Naples Under the Kiss of Fireas Assunta | |
| 1937 | Lady Killeras Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière | |
| 1937 | Pépé le Mokoas Gaby, the Parisian | |
| 1936 | Girls of Parisas Gine | |
| 1936 | Le Roman d'un spahias Cora | |
| 1935 | Marie des angoissesas Marie | |
| 1934 | Si j'étais le patronas Marcelle | |
| 1934 | We Found a Naked Womanas Denise | |
| 1934 | Vive la compagnieas Lilette | |
| 1933 | Don Quixoteas The Niece | |
| 1933 | Weaker Sexas Nicole | |
| 1932 | Vive la classeas |