Brigitte Mira
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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Who is Brigitte Mira?+
Brigitte Mira was a German stage and screen actress who became a central figure in the New German Cinema movement, often noted for her embodiment of the Berliner schnauze wit.
What is Brigitte Mira known for?+
She is best remembered for her lead performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and the title role in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven.
What kind of work does she make?+
She was primarily a character actress who transitioned from light stage comedy to complex, emotionally heavy roles in auteur-driven dramas.
