1. Catherine Schell was born on Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott, 17 July 1944 and is a Hungarian-born British actress who came to prominence in British film and television productions from the 1960s.
17 Facts About Catherine Schell
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In 1950, the family emigrated to the United States, where Catherine Schell's father acquired American citizenship.
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Catherine Schell entered a convent school in the New York City borough of Staten Island.
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In 1957, her father joined Radio Free Europe and the family moved to Munich where Catherine Schell developed an interest in acting and attended the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts.
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Catherine Schell acted under the alternate name "Catherina von Schell" early in her career.
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Catherine Schell appeared as Bond girl Nancy in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with George Lazenby in the lead.
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Catherine Schell appeared with Bette Davis, now credited as Catherine Schell, in Madame Sin, a television film made by ITC which was released theatrically in some markets.
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Catherine Schell appeared opposite Peter Sellers in the comedy The Return of the Pink Panther as Lady Claudine Lytton.
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Catherine Schell appeared with Sellers again in The Prisoner of Zenda, one of his last films.
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Catherine Schell spent much of her career in British television, appearing in more than 47 series spanning a period of nearly 30 years.
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Catherine Schell appeared in the science-fiction series Space: 1999 as a robotic servant, and returned to the series in its second season as the regular character Maya, a shape-shifting "metamorph" from the planet Psychon.
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Catherine Schell appeared in another British science-fiction series, as Countess Scarlioni in the Doctor Who serial City of Death.
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Catherine Schell is not believed to be related to the Austrian-Swiss actors Maximilian and Maria Schell.
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Catherine Schell's career continued into the mid-1990s, after which she retired from acting and opened Chambre d'Hotes Valentin, a small guesthouse in Bonneval, Haute-Loire, France, which would become a popular destination for fans of Space: 1999.
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Catherine Schell reportedly sold the inn after the death of her second husband in 2006.
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Catherine Schell made her first convention appearance at MainMission:2000, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Space: 1999 held in New York City.
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Catherine Schell contributed a foreword to the Space: 1999 novel Born for Adversity, written by David McIntee and published by Powys Media in 2010.