Editing Romy Schneider (section)

==Early career==
[[File:Romy Schneider 1955.jpg|thumb|upright|Schneider as Elisabeth of Austria in ''[[Sissi (film)|Sissi]]'' (1955)]]
Schneider's first film, made when she was 15, was ''[[When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953 film)|When the White Lilacs Bloom Again]]'' (1953), credited as Romy Schneider-Albach. In 1954, Schneider, for the first time, portrayed a royal, playing a young [[Queen Victoria]] in the Austrian film ''Mädchenjahre einer Königin'' (known in the U.S. as ''The Story of Vickie'' and in Britain as ''Victoria in Dover'').

Schneider's breakthrough came with her portrayal of [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]] in the romantic biopic ''[[Sissi (film)|Sissi]]'' (1955) and its two sequels, ''[[Sissi – The Young Empress]]'' (1956) and ''[[Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress]]'' (1957), all with [[Karlheinz Böhm]], who became a close friend. Less stereotypical films during this busy period include ''[[The Girl and the Legend]]'' (1957), working with a young [[Horst Buchholz]], and ''[[Monpti]]'' (1957), directed by [[Helmut Käutner]], again with Buchholz. In an attempt to work on a higher artistic level, she starred with [[Lilli Palmer]] in the 1958 remake of ''[[Mädchen in Uniform]]''.

[[File:Romy Schneider in 1965.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|Schneider on the set of ''[[What's New Pussycat?]]'' (1965)]]

Schneider starred in ''[[Christine (1958 film)|Christine]]'' (1958), a [[remake]] of [[Max Ophüls]]'s 1933 film ''[[Liebelei]]'' (in which her mother Magda Schneider had played the same role). It was during the filming of ''Christine'' that Schneider fell in love with French actor [[Alain Delon]] who co-starred in the film. She left West Germany to join him in Paris, and they announced their engagement in 1959.<ref>{{cite book|title=Alain Delon: Style, Stardom and Masculinity|editor1=Nick Rees-Roberts|editor2=Darren Waldron|publisher=Bloomsbury USA|year=2015|page=52|isbn=9781623564452}}</ref>

Schneider decided to live and to work in France, slowly gaining the interest of film directors such as [[Orson Welles]] for ''[[The Trial (1962 film)|The Trial]]'' (1962), based on [[Franz Kafka]]'s ''[[The Trial]]''. She was also introduced to [[Luchino Visconti]]. Under Visconti's direction, she gave performances in the [[Théâtre de Paris|Théâtre Moderne]] as Annabella (and Delon as Giovanni) in [[John Ford (dramatist)|John Ford]]'s stage play ''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'' (1961), and in the film ''[[Boccaccio '70]]'' (segment: "The Job"). In 1962, Schneider played Anna in [[Sacha Pitoëff]]'s production of [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]'s play ''[[The Seagull]]'', also at the Théâtre Moderne.

A brief stint in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] included a starring role in ''[[Good Neighbor Sam]]'' (1964), a [[comedy film|comedy]] with [[Jack Lemmon]], and ''[[What's New Pussycat?]]'' (1965), in which Schneider co-starred with [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Peter Sellers]], and [[Woody Allen]].

[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F034160-0011, Bonn, Bundeskanzler Brandt empfängt Schauspieler.jpg|thumb|Schneider and West German chancellor, [[Willy Brandt]], 1971]]

In 1964, Delon broke up with Schneider to marry [[Nathalie Barthélémy]] as he got her pregnant, and they had a son together, [[Anthony Delon]]. Delon divorced Barthélémy in 1969, after which he kept pursuing Schneider, but she always refused to get back together. However, they remained close lifelong friends and continued to work together in such films as ''[[La Piscine (film)|La Piscine]]'' (''The Swimming Pool'', 1968) and ''[[The Assassination of Trotsky]]'' (1972).