Maria Schell
Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926, Vienna – 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise. The daughter of a Swiss author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell and Immy (Immaculata) Schell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1926-01-15 · Vienna, Austria
- Died
- 2005-04-26
Known for
- Superman (1978) — Vond-Ah
- White Nights (1957) — Natalia
- The Odessa File (1974) — Frau Miller
- Kojak (1973) — Sister Lepar Angelica / Princess Viva Dushan
- The Hanging Tree (1959) — Elizabeth Mahler
- Scene of the Crime (1970) — Evelyn Stürznickel
- Cimarron (1960) — Sabra Cravat
- Voyage of the Damned (1976) — Frau Miriam Hauser
- Gervaise (1956) — Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse
- 99 Women (1969) — Leonie Caroll
- The Devil by the Tail (1969) — La comtesse Diane
- Derrick (1974) — Luisa van Doom
- The Brothers Karamazov (1958) — Grushenka
- The Bloody Judge (1970) — Mother Rosa
- The Martian Chronicles (1980) — Anna Lustig
- The Passerby (1982) — Anna Helwig