Swiss actress
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961
Lives on her mansion at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
Named after Liselotte, Princess Palatine.
After attending acting lessons at the Conservatory in Berne, she made her stage debut at the local Stadttheater.
As her roles on Ich denke oft an Piroschka and Das Wirtshaus im Spessart made her very popular in Germany, she was type casted as funny, tomboyish woman, although she wanted too play a sex bomb more often.
Although being considered to play a leading role in Ben-Hur and El Cid , she had to reject the offers because she had already signed for other projects in Germany. She later said that has been the biggest disappointment in her career.
She and her husband, Helmut Schmid , had two children: a son Marc-Tell Schmid (b.1962) and a daughter Melisande Schmid (b.1967-d.1989, committed suicide aged 22).
She was considered for the part of Jospha Cruchot in Le gendarme se marie , eventually played by Claude Gensac.
