Bettina Moissi


Bettina Moissi was a German stage and film actress. She played the character Victorine in the 1941 film The Comedians.

Biography

Bettina Moissi was born in Berlin on 15 October 1923, the second child of leading stage actor Aleksandër Moisiu. Her father was often branded as Jewish due to his name and his outspoken defense of his fellow Jewish actors and people during a period of growing antisemitism. She was Catholic but was married to Heinz Berggruen who was Jewish.

Personal life

In 1960, she married the art collector Heinz Berggruen. He predeceased her in 2007. They had two children:
Moissi died in Zurich on 21 November 2023, at the age of 100.

Selected filmography

The Comedians as VictorineIn Those Days as MarieThe Original Sin as Eva Meier-EdenLong Is the Road as Dora BerkowiczThe Orplid Mystery as Leata