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Romy Schneider (German: [ˈʁoː.mi ˈʃnaɪ̯.dɐ] (About this soundlisten); born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian Sissi trilogy, and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973). Schneider moved to France where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era.
Schneider began drinking alcohol excessively after her son's death. However, Schneider's friend and sister of Laurent Pétin, Claude Pétin, said that she no longer drank at the time of her death[20] and that she is convinced it was a natural death.
Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment on 29 May 1982. The examining magistrate Laurent Davenas declared that she died from cardiac arrest. Claude Pétin said that Schneider's cardiac arrest was due to a weakened heart caused by a kidney operation she had months before.
Her tombstone at Boissy-sans-Avoir, Yvelines, bears her birth name, Rosemarie Albach. Funeral guests were Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Jean Rochefort, Claude Sautet, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Depardieu, her brother Wolf-Dieter, former husband Daniel Biasini and Laurent Pétin[citation needed]. Shortly afterwards, Delon arranged for David to be buried in the same grave.
