Edith Meller

Biography

Edith Karolina Meller was a Hungarian-born actress who made a name for herself in German silent cinema during the 1920s. Born in Budapest, Hungary, she began her career with a role in the 1916 film Bogdan Stimoff, facilitated by the foreign minister's wife. Meller frequently collaborated with director Georg Jacoby and went on to appear in nearly 50 German-made silent films before her marriage in 1922.