Biography
Tala Birell, born Natalie Bierle, was a Romanian-born stage and film actress. She began her career on the European stage, appearing in Vienna and Berlin, where she made her debut in a production of the operetta Madame Pompadour and doubled for Marlene Dietrich in the 1928 revue Es liegt in der Luft.
Birell moved to the United States in the early 1930s and appeared in Hollywood films including Crime and Punishment (1935) as Antonya Raskolnikov, Bringing Up Baby (1938) as Mrs. Lehman, and The Song of Bernadette (1943) as Madame Leontine Bruat. She also performed on Broadway in Order Please (1934) and My Dear Children (1940).
She continued working in supporting roles through the 1940s and into television in the 1950s. Birell died on 17 February 1958 in Landstuhl, West Germany.
