Maria Schneider
Gender: Female
Born: 27th March 1952
Died: 3rd February 2011
Nationality: France
Movies: Jane Eyre, Last Tango in Paris, The Passenger, Savage Nights, Mama Dracula, Memoirs of a French Whore, Cliente, Merry-Go-Round, In the Country of Juliets, The Vixen, La vie d'artiste, Actors, Something to Believe In, The Repentant, Dear Parents, A Woman Like Eve, Bunker Palace Hôtel, The Old Maid, Haine, The Conviction
Marie Schneider (born 27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011) was a French actress. She was best known for playing Jeanne, opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris; and Girl in the 1975 film The Passenger, with Jack Nicholson.
Schneider was born Marie Christine Gélin, the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris. She met her father only three times and took her mother's last name and was raised by her mother near the French border with Germany.
As a teenager she adored films, going to the cinema up to four times a week, and she left home at 15 after an argument with her mother. Schneider made stage acting debut at age 15. where she scratched out a living as a film extra and a model. While working as an extra she met Brigitte Bardot, who knew her father and offered Maria a room in her house. Through Bardot, Maria also met important figures in the film business. Warren Beatty introduced her to the William Morris agency, and her first break came in 1970, when she appeared in "Madly", starring Alain Delon and directed by Roger Kahane.
Schneider performed several nude scenes in Last Tango in Paris, which
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