Catherine Hessling

Catherine Hessling

Born on June 22, 1900 in Moronvilliers, Marne, France, died on September 28, 1979.

Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.