
Actor
Mireille Balin
Born 1909 · 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.
Acting

Pépé le Moko
Gaby, the Parisian · 1937

Lady Killer
Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière · 1937
Weaker Sex
Nicole · 1933

Land of Fire
Georgette · 1939

Captain Benoit
Véra Agatcheff · 1938

La dernière chevauchée
Louise Valérian · 1947

Haut le vent
Gisèle Esteban · 1942

Gambling Hell
Mireille · 1942

The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude's wife · 1942

Vive la compagnie
Lilette · 1934

Gunshot
Countess Vilma Isopolska · 1939

L'assassin a peur la nuit
Lola Gracieuse · 1942

Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Sidonie Chèbe · 1941

Don Quixote
The Niece · 1933

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
Self (archival footage) · 2011

Si j'étais le patron
Marcelle · 1934

The Siege of the Alcazar
Carmen Herrera · 1940

Threats
Denise · 1940

Golden Venus
Judith · 1938

Marie des angoisses
Marie · 1935

Le Roman d'un spahi
Cora · 1936

We Found a Naked Woman
Denise · 1934

The Trump Card
Bella Score · 1942

Girls of Paris
Gine · 1936