Brigitte Mira
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 K...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Like a Bird on a Wire
1975
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Fear of Fear
1975
...und abends in die Scala
1958
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975
Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli
1970
Kino im Rausch - Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
2022
Fassbinder's Women
2000
Fabian
1980
The Berliner
1948
After Midnight
1981
Everyone Dies Alone
1976
Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
1958
Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen
2000
When Fear Eats the Soul
2007
Der Partyphotograph
1968
So ein Millionär hat's schwer
1958
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973
Kleiner Mann, was nun?
1973
Drei gegen Hollywood
1982
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
1997
Wir hau’n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne
1971