Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris)[1] was a French-Italian actress.

[3] Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films.

[2] Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis.

During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 1945.

[1] Balin arrived in Hollywood in 1937 with a staff of servants and with 28 trunks containing "most of her worldly possessions.