Maria Schell

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

Le Notti Bianche

as Natalia

The Odessa File

as Frau Miller

Kojak

as Sister Lepar Angelica / Princess Viva Dushan

Scene of the Crime

as Evelyn Stürznickel

Scene of the Crime

as Äbtissin

The Hanging Tree

as Elizabeth Mahler

Voyage of the Damned

as Frau Miriam Hauser

Cimarron

as Sabra Cravat

Gervaise

as Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse