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name: "Maria Schell"
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born: "15 January 1926"
died: "26 April 2005"
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updated: "2026-09-16T16:51:32.012039+00:00"
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# Maria Schell

Actor. Born 15 January 1926 in Vienna, Austria. Died 26 April 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 January 1926, Vienna, Austria
- **Died:** 26 April 2005
- **Also known as:** Maria Margarethe Anna Schell , Мария Шелл

## Biography

Maria Schell (born Maria Margarethe Anna Schell) was an Austrian-Swiss actress. She was born in Vienna on 15 January 1926 and died in Preitenegg, Carinthia, on 26 April 2005.

She trained at the School of Theatrical Arts in Zurich and began her career in Swiss and German films in the 1940s. Schell became a leading star of German cinema in the 1950s, appearing in *The Last Bridge* (1954), for which she won the Cannes Best Actress Award, and *Gervaise* (1956), for which she received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

Her later credits include *White Nights* (1957), *The Hanging Tree* (1959), *Cimarron* (1960), *The Odessa File* (1974), *Voyage of the Damned* (1976), *Superman* (1978) as Vond-Ah, and a guest role in *Kojak* (1976). She was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell and also performed on stage in Zurich, Vienna, Berlin and at the Salzburg Festival.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Kojak* (1973), Fi1m 80, as Sister Lepar Angelica / Princess Viva Dushan — [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)

## Also known for

- *Superman* (1978), Vond-Ah
- *White Nights* (1957), Natalia
- *The Odessa File* (1974), Frau Miller
- *The Hanging Tree* (1959), Elizabeth Mahler
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), Evelyn Stürznickel, Äbtissin
- *Cimarron* (1960), Sabra Cravat
- *Voyage of the Damned* (1976), Frau Miriam Hauser
- *Gervaise* (1956), Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse

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