Romy Schneider (1938 –1982) was a film actress born in
Vienna and held German and French citizenship.
She started 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. In 1958 she met Alain Delon and they became engaged;
Schneider moved to France where she made successful and critically acclaimed
films with some of the most notable film directors of that era.
Her engagement
to Delon ended in 1963 and Schneider subsequently married twice. The son from
her first marriage died in an accident in 1981 when he was 14. In May 1982,
aged 43, Schneider was found dead of cardiac arrest in her Paris apartment.
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