Early Life
Schell's father, Baron Paul Schell von Bauschlott, was a diplomat for Hungary; her mother was Countess Katharina Maria Etelka Georgina Elisabeth Teleki de Szék. At the beginning of the Second World War, the Nazis confiscated her parents' estates. Fleeing Hungary in advance of the Russians and Communism, the family lived in poverty until 1948, finding asylum first in Vienna and Salzburg. In 1950, the family migrated to the United States, where Schell's father gained US citizenship. Schell entered a convent school in the New York City borough of Staten Island. In 1957, Paul Schell joined Radio Free Europe and the family moved to Munich, where Catherine developed an interest in acting and attended the prestigious Otto Falckenberg Academy of Performing Arts.
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