Romy Schneider

Acting · Born 1938-09-23 in Vienna, Austria

Biography

Romy Schneider (born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, September 23, 1938 – May 29, 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian Sissi trilogy, and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Visconti's Ludwig (1973). Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era.

Filmography

• Sissi as Princess Elisabeth
• Sissi: The Young Empress as Empress Elisabeth
• Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress as Empress Elisabeth
• The Trial as Leni
• The Things of Life as Hélène
• The Old Gun as Clara Dandieu
• Purple Noon as Freddy's Companion (uncredited)
• The Swimming Pool as Marianne
• The Inquisitor as Chantal Martinaud
• 10:30 P.M. Summer as Claire

TV

• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
• Stars in the Ring as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
• Ludwig as Elisabeth of Austria
• German Film Award as Self
• Bambi as Self
• Dim Dam Dom as Self
• Midi trente as Self