- She never overcame the loss of her son. She suffered from depressions after his death resulting in an alcohol problem.
- She was a favorite of Coco Chanel and one of very few clients that Chanel would see personally.
- Alain Delon placed a piece of paper with the following words on her tomb: "Tu n'as jamais été aussi belle, tu vois j'ai appris quelques mots allemands pour toi: Ich liebe dich meine Liebe" (You have never been so beautful, you see that I learned some words in German for you: I love you my love).
- Friends with Austrian actor Helmut Berger and French designer Coco Chanel. She would often wear clothes designed by Chanel during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Engaged to Alain Delon from 1959 to 1963.
- Was good friends with Marlene Dietrich, one of her idols.
- Her son - with Harry Meyen - David-Christopher (David Haubenstock) died in France on 5 July 1981 after being impaled on a fence.
- 30 April 2005: Ranked #1 in a list by tabloid "Bild" searching the "50 most beautiful Germans ever".
- She smoked up to three packets of Marlboro cigarettes per day.
- Claude Petin - Schneider's friend and Laurent Pétin's sister - says that Schneider no longer drank at the time of her death, and that her cardiac arrest was due to a kidney operation she had months before.
- Was fluent in three languages: her native German, French and English.
- Pedro Almodóvar's film Todo sobre mi madre (1999) is partially dedicated to her.
- Good friend, Simone Signoret, convinced Romy to do her last film, La passante du Sans-Souci (1982), after the tragic death of her son, David Haubenstock.
- Her first husband Harry Meyen, a stage director, committed suicide in Hamburg on 15 April 1979.
- Her favorite co-star was the French actor Michel Piccoli.
- Her last longtime companion was Laurent Pétin, who found her dead in her Paris apartment in rue Barbet-de-Jouy in the early hours of 29 May 1982. No autopsy was ordered and she was declared to have died from cardiac arrest; however the media suggested that she committed suicide by taking a cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills.
- Portrayed on a postage stamp issued on Oct. 3, 1998 by the French Post Office.
- L'Heure Bleue by Guerlain was her favorite perfume.
- 1999: Was voted "Greatest actress of all time" by the readers of French newspaper "Le Parisien".
- She was in a relationship with Swiss actor Bruno Ganz at the beginning of the 70s.
- In 8 femmes (2002), when Louise (Emmanuelle Béart) shows a picture of her former employer, it is a picture of Romy Schneider.
- Pro-choice activist and supporter of the feminist movement.
- The Prix Romy Schneider, named after her, has been awarded to young actresses by the French movie business since 1984.
- Was nicknamed "Miss worried".
- Romy's funeral took place in the Church of Saint-Sébastien in the village of Boissy-sans-Avoir in Yvelines. She had bought a house there only a month before she died. She is buried in the village's cemetery beside her son, David.
- Was close friends with her Sissi (1955) co-star, Karlheinz Böhm.
- After her first movie, Wolf Albach-Retty wrote his daughter: "Put your childhood in your pocket and run away because that's everything you have!".
- Mother of Sarah Biasini and David Haubenstock.
- 1953: Graduated at the Goldstein boarding school near Salzburg, Austria.
- 24 November 2006: Ranked #3 in a survey by network ZDF searching Germany's all-time favorite actor, which made her the highest ranked woman.
- Was close friends with Yves Montand.
- Twice César award winner for Best Actress in 1976 and 1979 for L'important c'est d'aimer (1975) and Une histoire simple (1978) respectively. She received Best Actress nominations for Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976), Clair de femme (1979) and La passante du Sans-Souci (1982). In 2008 she was awarded an honorary César.
- 30 October 1974: Her appearance on Je später der Abend... (1973) made German television history when she passionately remarked to Burkhard Driest, a bank robber and author: "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you a lot.).
- She and Pascale Ogier are the only actors to receive a posthumous César nomination, for their performances in La passante du Sans-Souci (1982) and Las noches de luna llena (1984), respectively.
- Shares birthday with French stage actor Jean Piat, singer Ray Charles, actor Gino Paoli and Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.
- Was good friends with director Luchino Visconti.
- Is portrayed by Jessica Schwarz in Romy (2009) and by Marie Bäumer in 3 Tage in Quiberon (2018). In February 2008, it was announced that Yvonne Catterfeld would play the lead in a biopic called "A Woman Like Romy", backed by Warner Bros. Raymond Danon and Douglas Welbat were producing the film, to have been directed by Josef Rusnak. Shooting was scheduled to have begun in July 2008 but the project never came to fruition.
- In 1941, during a visit (brought there by her mother) to Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, she would play with Martin Bormann's children.
- Had a younger brother named Wolfgang Albach-Retty.
- 2000: Is portrayed on a 110 + 50 pfennig postage stamp by Deutsche Post.
- Was featured on the official poster of the 36th César Awards in 2011.
- Her role as Chantal in El interrogatorio: bajo custodia (1981) was played by Monica Bellucci in the American remake of the film Bajo sospecha (2000).
- Best friends with French actor Michel Piccoli.
- Good friends with German Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt. She was one of many celebrities supporting his politics of social novation.
- Engaged to Horst Buchholz (1957-1958).
- Daughter of Wolf Albach-Retty and Magda Schneider
- Recorded with Michel Piccoli the song entitled "Helene", for their film Les choses de la vie (1970)).
- A telephone card depicting Romy circulated in France in 1994, at the time of a campaign celebrating French cinema, with images of actors and actresses extracted from films and showing them on the telephone. The phone card featuring Romy was a photograph taken from La piscina (1969).
- In January 1981, Alain Delon and Romy were named "the actors preferred by the public" in a French magazine.
- Stepfather was Hans-Herbert Blatzheim, a pub owner in Cologne/ Germany.
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