# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-schell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:37:30.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-schell"
name: "Maria Schell"
slug: "maria-schell"
description: "Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian-Swiss actress. She was one of the leading stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1954, she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance in Helmut Käutner's war drama The Last Bridge, and in 1956, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Gervaise."
tagline: "Austrian-Swiss actress (1926–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Schell_1957.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-01-15"
deathDate: "2005-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.292048550904138
  historical:           24.272084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  124
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770730/"
    handle:    "nm0770730"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump