What is Romy Schneider?
[[File:Romy Schneider 1973.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Schneider in 1973]] '''Romy Schneider''' (September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982) was an [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[actress]]. She was from [[Vienna]]. She had German and French citizenship. She had an international career, but worked mostly in [[France]]. ==Life and career== She was born '''Rosemarie Albach-Retty''' in [[Vienna]], Austria. Her parents were Wolf Albach-Retty (1906-1967) and Magda Schneider (1909-1996), both famous actors in Austria and [[Germany]]. After her parents divorced in 1945, she was raised by her mother. With her mother's help, and using her mother's family name, she started acting in 1953. She quickly became very popular through Ernst Marischka's [[trilogy]] called ''Sissi'', about the early life of Empress [[Elisabeth of Austria]]. In 1958, she appeared in the movie ''Christine'', opposite French actor [[Alain Delon]]. They became engaged and she moved to France with him. Schneider worked with directors such as [[Luchino Visconti]] in ''Boccacio'' (1961), [[Orson Welles]] in ''The Trial'' (1962), and [[Otto Preminger]] in ''The Cardinal'' (1963). After her breakup with Delon in 1964, she went back to Germany. There she married stage director Harry Meyen. They had a son named David (1966-1981). She acted with Delon again in the movie ''La piscine'' in 1969. The rest of her career was mostly in France. Notable movies included; ''Les choses de la vie'' (1970), ''Max et les ferrailleurs'' (1971), ''Le trio infernal'' (1974), ''[[Le vieux fusil]]'' (1975), ''La banquière'' (1980), ''La passante du Sans-Souci'' (1981). Her later years were plagued by personal tragedies. She gave birth to a [[stillborn]] child in 1976 by her second husband Daniel Biasini. Her first husband Harry Meyen [[suicide|killed himself]] in 1979. Her son David accidentally died impaled while trying to go over a fence in 1981. That same year she had a kidney operation. She was found dead in her [[Paris]] apartment at the age of 43, probably from a [[heart attack]],