Romy Schneider

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Birthday:

23 September 1938, Vienna, Austria

Birth Name:

Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty

Height:

161 cm

Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into a family of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthrough came two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (1955). Her mother, supervising her daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participation in Christine (1958), the remake of Max Ophüls's Liebelei (1933), where Magda Schneider once starred herself. During the shooting, she fell in love with her co-star Alain Delon and eventually moved with him to Paris. At that time, she started her international career collaborating with famous directors such as Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles. After Delon had broken up with her in 1964, she married Harry Meyen shortly after. Although she gave birth to a boy, David-Christopher, their relationship was difficult, so they divorced in 1975. Being unsatisfied with her personal life, she turned to alcohol and drugs, but her cinematic career -especially in France- remained intact. She was the first actress, receiving the new created César Award as "Best Actress" for her role in L'important c'est d'aimer (1975). Three years later, she was awarded again for Une histoire simple (1978). After a short marriage to her former secretary Daniel Biasini, being the father of her daughter Sarah Biasini, she suffered the hardest blow of her life when her son was impaled on a fence in 1981. She never managed to recover from this loss and died on 29 May 1982 in Paris. Although it was suggested she committed suicide caused by an overdose of sleeping pills, she was declared to have died from cardiac arrest. Show less «

Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal.

Life must go on. My work gives me strength.

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

[Alain Delon] Delon? Nothing is colder than a love that has passed away.

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

I've worked with the biggest tyrants: [Otto Preminger] Preminger, [Orson Welles] Welles, [Luchino Visconti] Visconti. Despots - they have co...Show more »

I've worked with the biggest tyrants: [Otto Preminger] Preminger, [Orson Welles] Welles, [Luchino Visconti] Visconti. Despots - they have contempt for most actors. When they meet someone who stands up to them, everything's great. Show less «

I am nothing in life, but everything on the screen.

One can remain eternally young if each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments. I am convinced that at the end of my life, all these suffer...Show more »

One can remain eternally young if each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments. I am convinced that at the end of my life, all these sufferings and all these joys, the memories, the goods like the bad ones, give us a heat which resembles those that give us and which love us. Show less «

I cannot live without having a role to work.

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman, I would like to live and apprehend the p...Show more »

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman, I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me. Show less «

I am not afraid of nothing in the world. Except ego.

I want to learn, I want to develop, I want to discover all that is in me.

[In a letter to her friend Simone Signoret] I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.