Maria Schell

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926 – 26 April 2005) was an Austrian-Swiss actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for role in Gervaise.

 Early life 
Schell was born in Vienna, Austria. Her mother was Margarethe, an actress who ran an acting school. Her father was Hermann Ferdinand Schell, a Swiss poet, novelist and playwriter.Ross, Lillian and Helen. The Player: A Profile of an Art], Simon & Schuster (1961) pp. 231-239</ref> Her parents were Roman Catholics.<ref name="Ross">Ross, Lillian and Helen [https://archive.org/stream/playeraprofileof002609mbp/playeraprofileof002609mbp_djvu.txt The Player: A Profile of an Art, Simon & Schuster (1961) pp. 231-239 She was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell.

 Later life 
Schell lived reclusively in ill health in Carinthia in the Austrian Alps until her death from pneumonia in Preitenegg, Austria on 26 April 2005, aged 79.

Books

 1998: „... und wenn’s a Katz is!“ Mein Weg durchs Leben. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, .

References

Other websites



 Obituary: Maria Schell (1926-2005) 
 Photographs and literature
 Maria Schell Estate  at Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Category:1926 births
Category:2005 deaths
Category:Austrian movie actors
Category:Austrian stage actors
Category:Austrian television actors
Category:Actors from Vienna
Category:Swiss movie actors
Category:Swiss television actors