Brigitte Mira
Known For
Acting
Born
1910-04-20 in Hamburg, German Empire [now Germany]
Died
2005-03-08
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.
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
DAS!
as Self
Derrick
as Frau Hässler
Derrick
as Frau Tobbe
Volle Kanne
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Der Alte
as Hanna Lubach
Bambi
as Self
Wetten, dass..?
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Großstadtrevier
as Madame Chantal
A Case For Two
as Blumenfrau Moos
A Case For Two
as Haushälterin Anni
Das Traumschiff
as Mrs. Mayer
Alpha Forum
as Self
Dalli Dalli
as Self - Candidate
Menschen der Woche
as Self
Goldene Kamera
as Self
German Film Award
as Self
The Country Doctor
as Lilli Merz
Die Montagsmaler
as Self
Zum blauen Bock
as Self