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Maria Schell
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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.
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Who is Maria Schell?+
Maria Schell was a prominent Austrian-Swiss actress and one of the leading stars of post-war German cinema, celebrated for her deeply emotional acting style.
What is Maria Schell known for?+
She is remembered for her award-winning performance in Gervaise (1956), as well as her roles in Visconti’s White Nights (1957), The Last Bridge (1954), and the Western The Hanging Tree (1959).
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She was the older sister of the Academy Award-winning actor and director Maximilian Schell, with whom she shared a creative family legacy.
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