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Maria Schell
Acting
Born: January 15, 1926
Vienna, Austria
Biography
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

Superman
as Vond-Ah

99 Women
as Leonie Caroll

The Hanging Tree
as Elizabeth Mahler

The Odessa File
as Frau Miller

Cimarron
as Sabra Cravat

Le Notti Bianche
as Natalia

The Magic Box
as Helena Friese-Greene

Napoleon
as Marie-Louise d'Autriche

The Brothers Karamazov
as Grushenka

Voyage of the Damned
as Frau Miriam Hauser