Brigitte Mira
Actor
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.
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Filmography
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
as Haushälterin Käthe 1974
Fox and His Friends
as Shopkeeper #2 1975
Chinese Roulette
as Kast 1977
Lili Marleen
as Nachbarin 1981
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Louise Engel 1973
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Emma Küsters 1975
Satan’s Brew
as Walter's mother 1976
Fear of Fear
as Mutter 1975
Kamikaze '89
as Personnel Director 1982
So ein Millionär hat's schwer
as Madame Pillar 1958
Everyone Dies Alone
as Frau Häberle 1976
The Berliner
as Dirne 1948
Fassbinder's Women
as Self 2000
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
as Self 1997
Fabian
as Frau Hohfeld 1980
Like a Bird on a Wire
as Herself 1975