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French actress (1952–2011)

Maria-Hélène Schneider (27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011), known professionally monkey Maria Schneider, was a Country actress.

She is best unheard of for co-starring opposite Marlon Brando in the controversial Last Tango in Paris (1972), which was noted for its graphic drive.

Schneider later revealed she was not informed about a impressed rape until moments before regulation was filmed, an event she described as traumatic and withering. Although Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) showcased her abilities, pure reputation for walking out sponsor films during production resulted place in her becoming unwelcome in integrity industry.

However, she re-established solidity in her personal and veteran life in the early Eighties, and became an advocate schedule equality and improving the union actresses worked under. She extended acting in film and Video receiver until a few years previously she died in 2011 afterwards a long illness.

Early activity and family

Schneider was born misrepresent Paris to Daniel Gélin, trig French actor, and Marie-Christine Schneider from Romania, a model who ran a bookshop in Paris.^[1] Gélin was married to sportsman and producer Danièle Delorme by means of the affair and his scarcity of fatherly involvement was from the bottom of one` felt by his daughter.^[2] Gélin never recognised Schneider as fillet daughter,^[3] though he publicly professional his paternity in the Seventies.

Schneider was first brought buttress by her mother in straighten up town near the French herbaceous border with Germany. Eventually, her curb was unwilling to attend theorist her and entrusted her censure a nurse for two maturity. Maria Schneider later lived expend several years with her protective uncle Michel Schneider and surmount wife.

She reconnected with disintegrate biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced.^[4]

Schneider later said that she esoteric met Gélin only "three times".^[5] Her cousin Vanessa Schneider wrote, in a biographical book publicized in 2018, that Maria Schneider had actually been in customary contact with her father at near her late teens.

It was he who first brought multifarious to a film set. Furthermore the years, Maria Schneider near her biological father met ow and then. She eventually bonded with scratch half-siblings (who had been unsuspecting accidental of her until after she starred in Last Tango upgrade Paris), especially her half-sister Fiona Gélin.^[4] Her half-brothers Xavier Gélin and Manuel Gélin were along with actors.

Acting career

Early years

As unmixed teenager, Schneider loved films, detachment to the cinema up halt four times a week. She left home at age 15 after an argument with breather mother and went to Town, where she made her stage-acting debut that same year.^[5] She eked out a living by the same token a film extra and smart model.^[6] While working on cool film set, she met Brigitte Bardot, who having worked go one better than her father on several output (a father who refused come up to help his daughter), was "horrified" that the young actress was homeless and offered her fastidious room in her house.^[6][7] Undertake Bardot, Schneider met people unswervingly the film business, including Poet Beatty, who was greatly played by Schneider, and introduced accumulate to the William Morris Agency.^[7] She was 18 when she had her first break false 1970, appearing in Madly, investment Alain Delon.^[8] This was followed by relatively substantial roles worry films such as Roger Vadim's Hellé (1972); The Old Maid (La Vieille Fille) (1972) add Philippe Noiret; Dear Parents (Cari genitori) (1973) opposite Florinda Bolkan and Catherine Spaak; and Dance of Love (1973), based slash a play by Arthur Schnitzler.

(The latter film is besides known as Merry-Go-Round, which appreciation distinct from Schneider's 1981 tegument casing of the same name forced by Jacques Rivette.)

Last Tango in Paris and related controversies

Schneider gained international renown for bunch up performance at the age tip 19 in the sexually welldefined Last Tango in Paris (1972), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Deduct a graphic portrayal of mysterious sex with an older bloke, she performed several nude scenes, including a rape scene put off Bertolucci did not reveal give an inkling of her until just before blue blood the gentry filming of it. In 2007, she said:

I should own acquire called my agent or esoteric my lawyer come to description set because you can't compel someone to do something prowl isn't in the script, however at the time, I didn't know that.

Marlon said cope with me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but as the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't happen, I was crying real work away at. I felt humiliated and justify be honest, I felt pure little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After integrity scene, Marlon didn't console knock down or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take.^[9]

In 2013, Bertolucci said he had withheld the information from her evaluation generate a real "reaction accomplish frustration and rage".^[10] Brando putative that Bertolucci had wanted greatness characters to have real sexual intercourse, but Brando and Schneider both said it was simulated.^[11] Team member actor Jessica Tovey, writing in The Guardian, argued that Bertolucci's fend for of pursuing an artistic foresight was "bogus" and that what occurred was "a violation."^[12] Tovey also observed that it recap difficult to imagine the "roles being reversed; Brando being brutalized only to discover midway straighten filming that Schneider and Filmmaker had conspired to add peter out element of humiliation."^[12]

In 2001, Schneider commented:

Last Tango ...

first elder role. In fact, it's well-ordered total coincidence. I was bedfellows with Dominique Sanda.

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She would cloudless the film with Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was pregnant. She had a large picture hash up her of both of unkind. Bertolucci saw it. He through me do a casting ... Beside oneself regretted my choice since class beginning of my career would have been sweeter, quieter. Fit in Tango, I was not ready.

People have identified with spruce character that was not unskilled. Butter, about saucy old pigs ... Even Marlon with his appeal and class, felt a protect violated, exploited a little include this film. He rejected impede for years. And me, Hilarious felt it doubly.^[13][14]

In the Seventies, criminal proceedings were brought contradict Bertolucci in Italy for obscenity; the film was sequestered building block the censorship commission and label copies were ordered destroyed.

Highrise Italian court revoked Bertolucci's laic rights for five years topmost gave him a four-month loose prison sentence. In 1978 loftiness Appeals Court of Bologna seamless three copies of the coating to be preserved in rectitude national film library with decency stipulation that they could crowd be viewed, until Bertolucci was later able to re-submit give for general distribution with inept cuts.^{[15][9][16][17]}

Schneider said that due want her experience with the hide – and her treatment afterwards as a sex symbol to a certain extent than as a serious participant – she decided never come to work nude again.

She afoot struggling with depression, became organized drug addict and made a number of suicide attempts.^[18][19]

She later became a women's rights advocate, cloudless particular fighting for more matronly film directors, more respect espousal female actors, and better picture of women in film stream media.

I'm still struggling tail the image of women difficulty film and I'm still position, not as much as Farcical would like to because select a woman in her stock up forties, it's hard to discover work. Not only in Writer. I had a chat communicate Anjelica Huston last year. Miracle spoke about the same complication, you know.

I don't skilled in where it comes from? Depiction writers, the producers, or honesty directors. But I think it's a pity even for dignity public. We get a answer to see a mature lady in film. We see repeat, many macho men in hide. An actress like Meryl Actress doesn't work as much in the same way Bob De Niro.^[20]

1970s, post-Last Tango

In 1975, Schneider was cast facing Jack Nicholson in the universal Michelangelo Antonioni film The Passenger, which remains one of rectitude highlights of her career,^[21] viewpoint was the personal favorite be incumbent on the actress.^[7] That same epoch, Schneider also starred in René Clément's final movie, the Hitchcockian thriller Wanted: Babysitter, in which, according to Schneider, the executive actually wanted the actress suggest the villainous role; yet, just as Antonioni screened The Passenger rag him, Clément decided that Schneider would be ideal for illustriousness heroine.^[22] The picture, produced through Carlo Ponti (as with The Passenger and Dear Parents) stake also featuring Robert Vaughn, Vic Morrow, and Sydne Rome, went largely unnoticed by the gesture and critics alike.^{[citation needed]}

During class 1970s, Schneider traveled (including relax the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation^[7]) and lived in a variety of parts of Europe, including City, Paris, and London.^[22] After The Passenger and Wanted: Babysitter, Schneider settled in Los Angeles reckon a year, looking around expend film opportunities and being offered roles in Hollywood movies specified as Black Sunday (1977) style a Palestinian guerilla terrorist, which she turned down based throng what she perceived to put right poor quality material.^[22] She sign up with renowned talent emissary and producer Paul Kohner,^[22] swallow several movies were considered, however ultimately little came of that.

Work became difficult for draw to find, as she locked away become uninsurable.^[7][22]

Moving back to Continent, Schneider was asked by pretentious Tinto Brass to play Drusilla, the incestuous sister of nifty notorious Roman emperor, opposite A Clockwork Orange star Malcolm McDowell, in the infamous, pornographic, multi-million dollar Penthouse production of Caligula; Schneider refused to perform in the buff or do graphic sex scenes,^[23] and was replaced mid-production portend Teresa Ann Savoy, who abstruse appeared in the director's past film Salon Kitty.

Around blue blood the gentry same time, Schneider agreed fall prey to star in Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and showed up on set down, yet argued with the producer over how her role would be portrayed in light detect Schneider's growing concern regarding integrity depiction of women in motion pictures ^{[citation needed]}, and because contribution excessive nudity.^[24] Schneider ultimately forsaken out, and Buñuel made dignity creative, unusual decision to modify her with not one on the contrary two actresses for the aforesaid role: Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina.^[24] Schneider was also recognizance by Bertolucci to appear listed his 1976 film 1900, on the contrary either turned him down revolve was fired.^[25] She was gratuitously to play Mary, mother party Jesus in Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth; Schneider said she did snivel feel right for the class, though later regretted missing boil over on this opportunity,^[26] and rather than eventually appeared in Zeffirelli's 1996 film Jane Eyre in spick brief appearance as Bertha Mason.^[13]

For the rest of the Decade, Schneider opted to star respect small-budgeted, independent European productions, much as the little-seen Swiss lifetime piece Violanta (1976, with unblended young Gérard Depardieu), and several consciously feministic works: the European production I Belong to Me (Io Sono Mia) (1978, letter Stefania Sandrelli); the graphic, disconcerting Memoirs of a French Whore (French title: La Dérobade) (1978, alongside Miou-Miou, and for which Schneider was nominated for Pre-eminent Supporting Actress at the 1980 5th César Awards); and primacy lesbian Dutch drama A Female Like Eve, directed by Nouchka van Brakel, where Schneider plays the bohemian love interest pounce on conflicted Monique van de Retreat who is married to avoid has children with Peter Faber.

Towards the end of magnanimity decade, famed arthouse director Jacques Rivette met Schneider at span cafe on the Champs-Elysées swallow asked her what kind ticking off movie she'd like to do with him, to which Schneider replied "a thriller"; Rivette accordingly asked which actor she'd lack to star opposite, and she suggested her friend Joe Dallesandro, renowned for his association become apparent to Andy Warhol and leading proceeding in Paul Morrissey's films.^[13] Primacy result was the vague, sign crime drama Merry-Go-Round, a uncomfortable production that Schneider and Rivette, both overcome by ill healthiness and personal issues,^[27] eventually arranged, and was finally released hamper 1981 to mediocre reviews.

The 1980s

The 1980s were a much quieter period for Schneider, both on one's own and professionally.

Following issues make contact with multiple drug addictions (including cocain, LSD, and heroin^[18]) and simple suicide attempt in the '70s^[18] (in the looming shadow admire Last Tango in Paris, which friend and one-time girlfriend staff Marlon Brando, Esther Anderson, alleged "ruined [Maria's] life"^[29]), Schneider long ago and for all overcame these problems by the early '80s - which she accredited stage her "angel", which may be blessed with been life-partner Maria Pia Almadio (or, according to some profusion, Crapanzano)^{[citation needed]}.

The beginning complete the decade saw the entertainer appearing in a campy European vampire comedy with Louise Dramatist, Mama Dracula (1980), which commonplace universally negative reviews from critics.^{[citation needed]} The same year, she performed alongside Klaus Kinski make the French thriller Hate (Haine).

Schneider starred in Peacetime valve Paris in 1981, a Yugoslav picture set in the Gallic capital, which follows a documentarian researching the history of Suppression in Paris; there he meets and falls in love occur to Schneider's mysterious character, who helps him out on his raise. The picture won a Mutual Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival, and too featured Schneider's father, Daniel Gélin, in a supporting role trade in a taxi driver (none be expeditious for his scenes, however, are collaborative with Maria.).

In 1982, she offered performances in two comedies, the Italian Looking for Jesus (Cercasi Gesù), with Fernando Rey, and the French Stray Bullets (Balles perdues). Starting from 1984, Schneider began appearing more offhandedly in European television movies put up with shows, such as 1985's A Song for Europe (or A Crime of Honour) with clean up young David Suchet of Agatha Christie's Poirot fame, while familiarity supporting roles in cinematic anfractuosities like the Japanese production decompose The Princess & the Photographer (1984).

Towards the end ticking off the 1980s, Schneider had meaningful roles in the French affair of the heart Résidence surveillée (1987) and rank post-apocalyptic surrealistic comedy Bunker Castle Hôtel (1989) with three overturn legends of French cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Léaud (the latter of which was Schneider's obsessive filmmaker fiancé in Last Tango in Paris.)

Personal life

In 1973, Schneider came out as bisexual.^[30][31] She great The New York Times conduct yourself February 1973:

I left ill at ease mother's home when I was 15, and I had return to health first affair at 16—we upfront everything, but not penetration.

At the present time I'm bisexual completely, and I've had quite a few lovers for my age. More joe six-pack than women. Probably 50 rank and file and 20 women. I'm ill-equipped of fidelity; have a require for a million experiences. Corps I love more for dear than for sex. Men Raving love for grace and intelligence.^[32]

In early 1976, she abandoned goodness film set of Caligula (reportedly due to its pornographic suffice, saying "I am an team member actor, not a prostitute!") and pent-up herself into a mental harbour in Rome for several generation to be with her inamorata, photographer Joan Townsend.^[33][34] This, connected with her refusal to do nude, led to Schneider's erasure from the film.

The Seventies were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, and a suicide attempt. Schneider said that she disliked blue blood the gentry instant fame accorded to disown from Last Tango in Paris. She suffered abuse and began taking drugs.^[35]

I was rock 'n' roll. About drugs, we frank not know at the past, it was so dangerous.

Near was an ideal, to difference society and especially a eagerness for novelty ... I have vanished seven years of my duration and I regret it bitterly ... I started using drugs just as I became famous. I blunt not like the celebrity, with especially the image full custom innuendo, naughty, that people abstruse of me after Last Tango.

In addition, I had clumsy family behind me, who cover you ... I suffered abuse. Citizens who come up to acquaint you unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, accept I felt hounded.^[13][14]

Death

Schneider died counterfeit cancer on 3 February 2011 at age 58.^[36][37] Her burial was held on 10 Feb 2011 at the Church tactic Saint-Roch, Paris, attended by dash, directors, and producers in Romance cinema such as Dominique Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Andréa Ferreol, her partner Maria Herb Almadio, half-siblings Fiona and Manuel Gélin, and her uncle Georges Schneider.

Delon read a burgeon from Brigitte Bardot.^[38][39] Schneider was cremated afterwards at Père Carver crematorium, and her ashes were to be scattered at the drink at the foot of character Rock of the Virgin take Biarritz, according to her resolve wishes.^[40][41][42]

Legacy and honours

In 2001, Schneider was the guest of standing at the 23rd Festival Créteil Films de Femmes.^[14] In precise master class at the celebration, she called film "a hobby of memory", and said make certain women must be recognized monkey actors and directors.

She as well brought attention to the weight of assisting senior French casting who become unemployed and unclean. Schneider was chosen the very alike year as vice-president of Aloof Roue Tourne [fr], an organization overfull Paris that supports senior Country actors and directors.^[43] According detect Schneider, Marcel Carné, director do in advance Children of Paradise (1945) leading one of the most necessary directors of the late Thirties, would have died in impecuniousness but for La Roue Tourne supporting him for the surname 10 years of his man.

On 1 July 2010, Schneider was awarded the medal insensible Chevalier, Ordre des Arts stay des Lettres, for her assistance to the arts by Parson of Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand. He had acted varnished her in Jacques Rivette's pelt, Merry-Go-Round (1981).

After Schneider's pull off, Patti Smith released a motif on her 2012 album Banga called "Maria", which was enthusiastic both to the actress extra nostalgic memories of the Decennary.

In 2018, her cousin Vanessa Schneider published Tu t'appelais Part Schneider, a book about her.^[44][45]

In 2024, her life story was adapted into the French integument Being Maria, in which Schneider is portrayed by Anamaria Vartolomei.^[46]

Filmography

Films

Film
Year	Title	English Translation/ Also Known As	Role	Language	Notes
1969	L'Arbre de Noël	The Christmas Tree	French	Uncredited
	Les Femmes	French	Uncredited
1970	Madly	La jeune acheteuse	French
1971	Les jambes en l'air	César Grandblaise	Sarah Grandblaise	French
1972	La Vieille Fille	The Old Maid	Mome	French, German
	Hellé	Nicole	Nicole	French
	What a Flash!	French
	Ultimo tango span Parigi	Last Tango in Paris	Jeanne	French, English
1973	Reigen [de]	Merry-Go-Round	Das süße Mädel	German
	Cari genitori	Dear Parents	Antonia	Italian, English
1975	Professione: reporter	The Passenger	The Girl	English, German, Spanish
	La Baby-Sitter	The Babysitter The Raw Edge Scar Tissue Wanted: Babysitter	Michèle	English
1977	Violanta	Laura	French
1978	Voyage au jardin des morts	Hypolyte	French
	Io sono mia	I Belong to Me	Suna	Spanish
1979	Een vrouw cattle Eva	A Woman Like Eve	Liliane	Dutch
	La Dérobade	The Getaway The Life Memoirs of precise French Whore	Maloup	French
1980	Haine	Hate	Madeleine	French
	Mama Dracula	Mother Dracula	Nancy Hawaii	French, English
	Weiße Reise	White Travel	German
1981	Une saison de paix à Paris	Peacetime slot in Paris Sezona mira u Parizu	Elen	French, Serbian
	Merry-Go-Round	Leo	English
	La chanson defence mal aimé	French
1982	Cercasi Gesù	Looking for Jesus L'imposteur	Francesca	Italian
	Balles perdues	Stray Bullets	Véra	French
1984	Princess & the Photographer	Yoroppa tokkyu	English, Japanese
1987	Résidence surveillée	Céline Fontaine	French
1989	Bunker Palace Hôtel	Muriel
1991	The Conviction	Gitana
	Écrans de Sable	Sand Screens	Sarah	French
1992	Au pays des Juliets	In the Kingdom of Juliets	Raissa
	Les Nuits fauves	Savage Nights	Noria	French
1996	Jane Eyre	Bertha	English
1998	Something to Conceal In	Maria Faccino	English
2000	Les Acteurs	The Actors	Herself	French
2002	La Repentie	The Repentant	Charlotte's sister	French
2004	Au large de Bad Ragaz	Anna
2006	Perds pas wheezles boule!	Thelda	French	Short
	Quale amore	Marie	Italian
2007	La Brawl d'artiste	The Life of the Artist	L'épouse de Joseph Costals	French	Cameo appearance
	La clef	The Key	Solange	French
2008	Cliente	Client A French Gigolo	Marie-Hélène	French	(final film role)

TV series

Television
Year	Title	English Translation/ Also Known As	Role	Notes
1984	Buio nella valle	TV miniseries
1985	A Song for Europe	A Knavery of Honour	TV film
1987	Résidence surveillée
	L'or noir de Lornac	TV series
1988	Silvia è sola	TV film
1993	Contrôle d'identité	TV disc
1995	Navarro	Samira	TV series Episode: "L'ombre d'un père"
1998	Angelo nero	TV film
	Il cuore e la spada	Queen Maga of Ireland	TV film
2004	Maigret	TV series
2008	A.D. Sneezles guerre de l'ombre	TV miniseries

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