Brigitte Mira
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Brigitte Mira (April 20, 1910 – March 8, 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Brigitte Miras mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in propaganda ads and turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. the propaganda directors did not know she was half Jewish. Even if she insisted on her naivity as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized 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 became to embody the West 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 series "Drei Damen vom Grill".
