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Name: Romy Schneider
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Date of Birth:
September 23, 1938
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Place of Birth:
Vienna, Austria
Mini-bio:
Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into afamily of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthroughcame two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (...( read more)1955). Her mother,supervising the daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participationin Christine (1958), the remake of Max Ophüls's Liebelei (1933), where MagdaSchneider once starred herself. During the movies's shooting, she felt inlove with her co-star Alain Delon and eventually moved with him to Paris. Atthat time, she started her international career collaborating with famousdirectors such as Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles. After Delon had brokenup with her in 1964, she married Harry Meyen shortly after. Although shegave birth to a boy, David-Christopher, their relationship was difficult, sothey divorced in 1975. Being unsatisfied with her personal life, she turnedto alcohol and drugs, but her cinematic career -especially in France-remained intact. She was the first actress, receiving the new created CésarAward as "Best Actress" for her role in Important c'est d'aimer, L' (1975).Three years later, she was awarded again for Une histoire simple (1978).After a short marriage to her former secretary Daniel Biasini, being thefather of her daughter Sarah Biasini, she suffered the hardest blow of herlife when her son was impaled on a fence in 1981. She never managed torecover from this loss and died on 29 May 1982 in Paris. Although it wassuggested she committed suicide caused by an overdose of sleeping pills, shewas declared to have died from cardiac arrest.