Rosemarie Magdalena Albach (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982), known professionally as Romy Schneider (), was a German and French actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as

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in the '' Sissi'' trilogy in the mid-1950s. She later reprised the role in a more mature version in

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's '' Ludwig'' (1973). She began her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era.

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called Romy "the ultimate incarnation of the ideal woman".

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remarked: "Sautet is talking about Mozart with regard to Romy. Me, I want to talk of Verdi, Mahler..."

Early life

Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in

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, six months after the ''

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'' of Austria into the

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. She was born to a theatrical couple; her father Wolf Albach-Retty was a leading actor of Vienna's Volkstheater, and her mother Magda Schneider starred in scores of lavish musical films in Germany. Her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty had been one of the most popular actresses of the Austrian theater. Rosemarie, known to family as Romy from her earliest years, was educated at private schools in Berchtesgaden and Salzburg. Interested in painting, she planned to continue her education at art school, but she was also interested in school plays, not only acting in them but directing as well. Four weeks after her birth, her parents took her to Schönau am Königssee in Germany where she and later her brother Wolf-Dieter (born 1941) grew up with their grandparents Franz Xaver and Maria Schneider on the country estate . In her first year, Schneider was cared for by a governess. Her parents were very rarely present due to their acting engagements. In 1943, they separated and divorced in 1945. In September 1944, Schneider was enrolled in the elementary school of Schönau and from July 1949 she attended the girls' boarding school at , a private secondary school of the Augustinian

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es of the Congregation of Notre Dame in Elsbethen near Salzburg. During her schooldays, she discovered her passion for acting which is why she was often on stage at theatrical performances at the residential school. In her diary entry of 10 June 1952, she wrote: "If it were up to me, I would immediately become an actress. ... Every time I see a nice movie, my first thoughts are about the idea: I definitely have to become an actress. Yes! I have to!" On 12 July 1953, she left the residential school Goldenstein with the degree of ''

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''. After the summer holidays, she moved to Cologne to join her mother who lived there with the restaurateur and entrepreneur . After her parents' divorce in 1945, Magda took charge of Schneider and her brother Wolf-Dieter, eventually supervising her career, often appearing alongside her daughter. Her career was also overseen by her stepfather Blatzheim who, Schneider said, had made sexual advances on her.

Early career

Schneider's first film, made when she was 15, was '' When the White Lilacs Bloom Again'' (1953), credited as Romy Schneider-Albach. In 1954, Schneider, for the first time, portrayed a royal, playing a young

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in the Austrian film ''Mädchenjahre einer Königin'' (known in the U.S. as ''The Story of Vickie'' and in Britain as ''Victoria in Dover''). Schneider's breakthrough came with her portrayal of

in the romantic biopic '' Sissi'' (1955) and its two sequels, '' Sissi – The Young Empress'' (1956) and '' Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress'' (1957), all with Karlheinz Böhm, who became a close friend. Less stereotypical films during this busy period include '' The Girl and the Legend'' (1957), working with a young Horst Buchholz, and '' Monpti'' (1957), directed by

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, again with Buchholz. In an attempt to work on a higher artistic level, she starred with Lilli Palmer in the 1958 remake of '' Mädchen in Uniform''. Romy Schneider in 1965

Schneider starred in '' Christine'' (1958), a

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's 1933 film '' Liebelei'' (in which her mother Magda Schneider had played the same role). It was during the filming of ''Christine'' that Schneider fell in love with French actor

Alain Delon Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (; 8 November 1935 – 18 August 2024) was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged as one of ...

who co-starred in the film. She left West Germany to join him in Paris, and they announced their engagement in 1959. Schneider decided to live and to work in France, slowly gaining the interest of film directors such as

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for '' The Trial'' (1962), based on

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's '' The Trial''. She was also introduced to

. Under Visconti's direction, she gave performances in the Théâtre Moderne as Annabella (and Delon as Giovanni) in

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's stage play ''

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'' (1961), and in the film ''

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'' (segment: "The Job"). In 1962, Schneider played Anna in Sacha Pitoëff's production of

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's play ''

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'', also at the Théâtre Moderne. A brief stint in

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included a starring role in '' Good Neighbor Sam'' (1964), a

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with

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, and '' What's New Pussycat?'' (1965), in which Schneider co-starred with Peter O'Toole,

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, and

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. In 1964, Delon broke up with Schneider to marry Nathalie Barthélémy as he got her pregnant, and they had a son together, Anthony Delon. Delon divorced Barthélémy in 1969, after which he kept pursuing Schneider, but she always refused to get back together. However, they remained close lifelong friends and continued to work together in such films as '' La Piscine'' (''The Swimming Pool'', 1968) and '' The Assassination of Trotsky'' (1972).

Later career

Schneider continued to work in France during the 1970s, most notably with director

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on five films. Their first collaboration, '' The Things of Life'' (''Les choses de la vie'', 1970) featuring

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, made Schneider an icon in France. The three collaborated again for the noir thriller '' Max et les ferrailleurs'' (''Max and the Junkmen'', 1971), and she appeared with

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in Sautet's '' César et Rosalie'' (1972). Schneider portrayed a more mature and realistic Elisabeth of Austria in '' Ludwig'' (1973), Visconti's film about the life of King

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."Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal", Schneider once said. ''

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'' wrote in 1971: "Forty years after Greta and Marlene, fifteen years after Marilyn, the screen again has a great star." Other successes from this period included '' Le Train'' (1973),

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's thriller '' Innocents with Dirty Hands'' (''Les innocents aux mains sales'', 1975) with

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, and '' Le vieux fusil'' (1975). The gritty '' That Most Important Thing: Love'' (''L'important c'est d'aimer'', 1974) garnered her first

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(France's equivalent of the Oscar), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for '' A Simple Story'' (''Une histoire simple'', 1978). On 30 October 1974, Schneider was the second guest on

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's talk show ' (''The Later the Evening'') when she, after a rather terse interview, remarked passionately to the last guest, bank robber and author Burkhard Driest: "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you a lot.) , U.S. filmmaker

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wanted Schneider to star as the female lead in his political love story ''Perfect Strangers''. She would have starred alongside

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and

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. The film, however, was ultimately cancelled after several weeks of pre-production shooting because of "political machinations". She also acted in '' The Infernal Trio'' (1974) with

, and in '' Garde à vue'' (1981) with Michel Serrault and

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. An unpleasant incident occurred during this period with leading German film director

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, who wanted to cast her as the lead in his film '' The Marriage of Maria Braun'' (1979). Negotiations broke down when he called Schneider a "dumb cow", to which she responded by declaring she would never work with such a "beast". Fassbinder cast Hanna Schygulla instead, reviving his professional association with an actress to whom he had likewise been offensive. Schneider starred in

's '' Death Watch'' (''La mort en direct'', 1980), playing a dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist (

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). It is based on

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's novel. Schneider's last film was '' La Passante du Sans-Souci'' (''The Passerby'', 1982).

Personal life

Following the end of her relationship with Delon in 1964, Schneider married German director and actor Harry Meyen in July 1966; they divorced in 1975. They had a son, David Christopher (1966–1981). David died in July 1981, at the age of 14, after attempting to climb the spiked fence at his stepfather's parents' home and puncturing his

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in the process. Schneider had affairs with

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(1963), Sammy Davis Jr. (1964),

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(1964), Giovanni Volpi (1964–1970s), Luis Miguel Dominguín (1970s) and actor Bruno Ganz (early 1970s). She also had an affair with Jorge Guinle (1965), who said that Schneider was the great love of his life. She had a brief affair with

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while filming ''The Train'' (1973). She also had in 1974 a brief affair with Jacques Dutronc while filming ''That Most Important Thing: Love''. Schneider appeared as one of 28 women under the banner "

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" () on the cover page of the West German magazine ''

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'' on 6 June 1971. In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time was illegal. In 1975, Schneider married , her private secretary; they divorced in 1981. Their daughter,

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, is an actress. Schneider’s last romantic partner was film producer (born 1949). In her 2018 biography ''Romy Schneider intime'', Alice Schwarzer stated that Schneider confided to her that she had sexual relationships with women and was deeply in love with her close friend Simone Signoret.

Death

Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment on 29 May 1982. The

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declared that she had died from

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. Claude Pétin said that Schneider's cardiac arrest was due to a weakened heart caused by a kidney operation she had had months before. Schneider began drinking alcohol excessively after her son's death. However, Schneider's friend and sister-in-law of Laurent Pétin, Claude Pétin, said that she no longer drank at the time of her death and that she was convinced it was a natural death."Romy Schneider a fini ses jours avec Laurent Pétin, son dernier amour"
by Salomé Gegout, ', 24 September 2020 (in French). Her tombstone at Boissy-sans-Avoir,

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, Jean-Loup Dabadie and Jean Rochefort. Alain Delon arranged for her son David to be buried in the same grave.

Enduring popularity

The French journalist Eugène Moineau initiated in 1984 the Prix Romy Schneider. It is one of the most prestigious awards for upcoming actresses in the French film industry, and is given by a jury each year in Paris in conjunction with the Prix Patrick Dewaere (formerly the Prix Jean Gabin). In 1990, the Austrian newspaper ''

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'' created the Romy TV Award in honour of Schneider. In 2003, she was voted 78th on the list of the greatest Germans in the German TV program Unsere Besten (the German version of

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)—the second-highest ranked actress (

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was 50th) on that list. Until 2002, the Austrian Federal Railways

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service IC 535 from

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was named "Romy Schneider".

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's film '' All About My Mother'' (1999) is partially dedicated to her. A movie about Schneider's life, titled ''Eine Frau wie Romy/Une femme comme Romy'' (''A Woman Like Romy''), was planned by

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for 2009; Schneider's role was going to be played by Yvonne Catterfeld. The project was cancelled in July 2009. A musical about Schneider, ''Romy – Die Welt aus Gold'' (''Romy – The Golden World'') was premiered in 2009 at the Theater

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. In November 2009, the ARD broadcast the feature film ' with Jessica Schwarz in the title role. The film '' 3 Days in Quiberon'' (2018) by Emily Atef describes a 1981 episode in Schneider's life in the French town of

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. On 23 September 2020,

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celebrated her 82nd birthday with a

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in Germany, France, Austria, Iceland and Ukraine. The culture broadcaster

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dedicated a documentary to Romy Schneider and

: ''Romy and Alain – The Eternal Betrothed'', 2022.

Filmography

Awards

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: 1957 nominated for '' Sissi'' * Bravo Otto **1957: Bronze **1958: Gold **1959: Silver **1971: Silver **1972: Bronze **1977: Bronze *: 1963 as Best Foreign Actress for '' The Trial'' * Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama: 1963 nominated for ''

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'' *

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1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

: won for ''

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'' **

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

: nominated for '' Une femme à sa fenêtre'' **

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

: won for '' Une histoire simple'' **

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

: nominated for '' Clair de femme'' **

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

: nominated for '' La Passante du Sans-Souci'' *

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Best Actress: 1977 for '' Group Portrait with a Lady'' * Premio David di Donatello: 1979 Lifetime Achievement *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Honorary César The César Award is France's national film award. Recipients are selected by the members of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of ...

Awards named after Romy Schneider

* Prix Romy Schneider, French film award established in 1984 * Romy, Austrian award established in 1990

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Romy 1938 births 1982 deaths 20th-century French actresses 20th-century German actresses Best Actress César Award winners Best Actress German Film Award winners César Honorary Award recipients French film actresses French stage actresses German film actresses German people of Austrian descent Actresses from Vienna Naturalized citizens of France French people of Austrian descent French people of German descent German emigrants to France