Brigitte Mira
Born April 20, 1910 (Age: 115)
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Hamburg, German Empire [now Germany]
Biography
Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all. Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor. Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Mira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all.
Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor.
Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Mira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Fassbinder's Women
2000
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as Self
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Age: 90
Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen
2000
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as Käthe Mühlmann
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Age: 90
Lili Marleen
1981
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as Nachbarin
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Age: 70
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
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as Emmi Kurowski
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Age: 63
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Die Computer-Show
1971
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as Green Widow
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Age: 60
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Prozeß Mariotti
1970
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as
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Age: 60
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Im Ballhaus wird geschwoft
1968
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as
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Age: 58
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Die Belagerung der Josephine
1963
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as Madame Helene
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Age: 53
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Bubusch
1962
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as Mama
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Age: 51
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Die Marquise von Arcis
1961
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as Clementine Duquenoy
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Age: 51
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Wie einst im Mai
1961
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as Mechthilde von Kiefernspeck
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Age: 51
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Die Liebe des Jahres
1959
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as Lady Schocker, Journalistin
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Age: 49
Du bist wunderbar
1959
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as Madame Dupont
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Age: 49
Schlag auf Schlag
1959
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as Frau Hinze
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Age: 48
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Drei Orangen
1959
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as Sophia
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Age: 48