Brigitte Mira


Brigitte Mira was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, and on many occasions, with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Believed to have been born in Hamburg, she moved when young to Berlin. Mira's mother was German, and her father was Russian Jewish. During the Nazi era, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese : the bad role model, according to Nazi ideology, who listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. However, her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was cancelled for being counterproductive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish because she had false papers. Although she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and that she had to conceal her origins, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all.
Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 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. She appeared in the 1991 stage production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in Berlin.

Partial filmography

  • The Berliner as Dirne
  • ' as Frau Mertens
  • Münchhausen in Afrika as Karla Mai
  • When She Starts, Look Out as Frau Knax
  • The Star of Santa Clara as Tante Theresa
  • So ein Millionär hat's schwer as Madame Pillard
  • Schlag auf Schlag as Sophie Hinze
  • Melodie und Rhythmus as Pensionsleiterin
  • Du bist wunderbar as Madame Dupont
  • Im Namen einer Mutter as Mutter Reitner, Strafgefangene
  • Geschminkte Jugend
  • Ich kann nicht länger schweigen as Frau Ohl
  • So toll wie anno dazumal as Frau Sommer
  • Jack and Jenny as Thea
  • ' as Frau Bütow
  • Hotel by the Hour as Rose Schuh
  • Twenty Girls and the Teachers as Wirtin
  • Wir hau'n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne as Mutti Bauer
  • Eight Hours Don't Make a Day as Marions Mutter, Frau Andreas
  • The Tenderness of Wolves as Louise Engel
  • 1 Berlin-Harlem
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Emmi
  • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser as Kathe, Servant
  • Fox and His Friends as Shopkeeper #2
  • Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven as Emma Küsters
  • ' as Mutter
  • The Secret Carrier
  • Everyone Dies Alone as Frau Häberle
  • ' as Oma Wuttke
  • Satan's Brew as Mutter Kranz
  • Chinese Roulette as Kast
  • Adolf & Marlene
  • Liebe das Leben, lebe das Lieben as Hauswartfrau
  • Drei Damen vom Grill as Margarete Färber
  • ' as Simons Mutter
  • Iron Gustav as Frau Pauli
  • Derrick as Frau Tobbe
  • Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt as Frau Kulicke
  • Fabian as Frau Hohlfeld
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz as Frau Bast / Wirtin Bast
  • Lili Marleen as Nachbarin
  • ' as Denunziantin
  • Kamikaze 1989 as Personaldirektorin
  • The Roaring Fifties as Frau Willmsen
  • ' as Frau Niendorf
  • ' as Toilettenfrau
  • Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste as Gemüsefrau
  • Spreepiraten as Gundula Brachvogel
  • Fassbinder's Women as Herself

    Dubbing roles

  • Widow Tweed - Disney's ''The Fox and the Hound''