
Known for
Acting
Born
July 19, 1909
Birthplace
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Died
November 9, 1968 (aged 59)
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...
1947
as Louise Valérian
1943
1942
as Gisèle Esteban
1942
as Lola Gracieuse
1942
as Bella Score
1942
as Mireille
1942
as Claude's wife
1941
as Sidonie Chèbe
1940
as Denise
1940
as Carmen Herrera
1939
1939
1939
as Countess Vilma Isopolska
1939
as Georgette
1938
as Véra Agatcheff
1938
as Judith
1937
as Assunta
1937
as Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
1937
as Gaby, the Parisian
1936
as Gine
1936
as Cora
1935
as Marie
1934
as Marcelle
1934
as Denise
1934
as Lilette