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Who is Romy Schneider?

"Happy birthday, Romy Schneider, and thank you for helping to bring decades of timeless stories to life," wrote the Google team in a bio dedicated to the actress. Several rejected illustration drafts on the website show Schneider in various roles, including dressed as Sissi, the character that made her a superstar in 1955.

Born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach to Austrian-German actor parents in Vienna in 1938, Schneider moved with her family to Bavaria as a child. She first appeared alongside her mother at age 15 in the 1953 film When the White Lilacs Bloom Again. 

Her breakthrough came a couple of years later in 1955 when the 17-year-old portrayed a young Bavarian princess who is crowned Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the romantic biopic Sissi. The film skyrocketed her to success but also pigeonholed her into playing naïve, innocent characters popular in the postwar German cinema — which she openly detested. She even turned down an offer of millions of euros to work on a fourth Sissi film. 

"Yes, I loved this role back then," Schneider said. "I was the princess, not just in front of the camera. I was always a princess. But one day I simply did not want to be a princess anymore."

Following in her mother's footsteps, the then 20-year-old Schneider starred in Christine, the 1958 remake of the 1933 film Liebelei in which her mother had played the same role. During the filming, Schneider fell in love with her co-star, French leading man Alain Delon. The pair announced their engagement and moved together to Paris, much to the outrage of Schneider's large German fan base.

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