In Loving Memory of Romy Schneider

Born September 23, 1938 - Passed Away May 29, 1982

This memorial website was created in the memory of Romy Schneider , born in Vienna, Vienna on September 23, 1938 and passed away on May 29, 1982 at 44 years of age.

Romy Schneider (German: (listen); 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 Luchino 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.

Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Vienna, six months after the Anschluss of Austria into Nazi Germany, to actors Magda Schneider and Wolf Albach-Retty. Her paternal grandmother, Rosa Albach-Retty, was also an actress. Schneider's mother was German while her father was Austrian.