Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
4/20/1910
Place of Birth
Hamburg, German Empire [now Germany]
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 propag...
Known For
Kamikaze '89
as Personnel Director
Lili Marleen
as Nachbarin
Fox and His Friends
as Shopkeeper #2
Fear of Fear
as Mutter
Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
as Oma Wuttke
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Emmi Kurowski
Adolf and Marlene
Unknown Role
Die wilden Fünfziger
as Frau Willmsen
So toll wie anno dazumal
as Frau Sommer
Kino im Rausch - Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
as Self (archive footage)
Frau Luna
as Frau Pusebach
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Emma Küsters
Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas
Unknown Role
Satan’s Brew
as Walter's mother
Chinese Roulette
as Kast
...und abends in die Scala
as Frau Mertens
Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli
as Rose Schuh
Jack and Jenny
as Thea
Sigi, der Straßenfeger
as Mrs. Niendorf
Girl in a Boot
as Toilettenfrau
Career Timeline
2000
1997
1995
1993
1991
1989
1988
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
Die Murmel
as Berta
So oder So ist das Leben
Role unknown
Kamikaze '89
as Personnel Director
Krimistunde
as Tante Louise
Drei gegen Hollywood
as Helen Hobart
Ab in den Süden
as Gerti
Bühnenbild mit Dame
as Garderobiere
Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
as Frau Mürbes
Leben im Winter
as Martha
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
Loriots Telecabinet
as Gloria Miranda
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
as Haushälterin Käthe
Derrick
as Frau Hässler
Derrick
as Frau Tobbe
Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas
Role unknown
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Emmi Kurowski
Die Montagsmaler
as Self
1 Berlin-Harlem
Role unknown