Romy Schneider

ROMY SCHNEIDER d1982. German-French actress. She began her career in the German Heimafilm 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 Ludwig (1973). She then moved to France where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. She died of a cardiac arrest in Paris aged just 43 on May 29th 1982