Born to Xaverius Schneider, a plumber, and his wife Maria Meier-Hörmann.
Grandmother of Sarah Biasini.
Is interred in the Bergfriedhof, a cemetery in Berchtesgaden.
Like several other actors, she once visited Adolf Hitler at his mountain residence Berghof (1941).
Mother of Romy Schneider
Played her real life daughter Romy Schneider's character's mother in six movies: Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1953), Sissi (1955), Sissi: The Young Empress (1956), The Girl and the Legend (1957), Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) and Die Halbzarte (1959).