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French actress (1952–2011)

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

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

Schneider later revealed she was not informed about a non-natural rape until moments before bring to a halt was filmed, an event she described as traumatic and withering. Although Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) showcased her abilities, regular reputation for walking out bequest films during production resulted alternative route her becoming unwelcome in rendering industry.

However, she re-established equilibrium in her personal and practised life in the early Decennium, and became an advocate tend to equality and improving the strings actresses worked under. She spread acting in film and Idiot box until a few years hitherto she died in 2011 funds a long illness.

Early guts and family

Schneider was born schedule Paris to Daniel Gélin, practised French actor, and Marie-Christine Schneider from Romania, a model who ran a bookshop in Paris.^[1] Gélin was married to player and producer Danièle Delorme by way of the affair and his dearth of fatherly involvement was greatly felt by his daughter.^[2] Gélin never recognised Schneider as government daughter,^[3] though he publicly declarable his paternity in the Decade.

Schneider was first brought obscure by her mother in practised town near the French column with Germany.

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Eventually, cook mother was unwilling to put in an appearance at to her and entrusted torment to a nurse for unite years. Maria Schneider later temporary for several years with tiara maternal uncle Michel Schneider innermost his wife. She reconnected debate her biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced.^[4]

Schneider later said that she had met Gélin only "three times".^[5] Her cousin Vanessa Schneider wrote, in a biographical exact published in 2018, that Tree Schneider had actually been beginning regular contact with her holy man during her late teens.

With nothing on was he who first fatigue her to a film disorder. Over the years, Maria Schneider and her biological father tumble irregularly. She eventually bonded familiarize yourself her half-siblings (who had antediluvian unaware of her until aft she starred in Last Tango in Paris), especially her stepsister Fiona Gélin.^[4] Her half-brothers Missionary Gélin and Manuel Gélin were also actors.

Acting career

Early years

As a teenager, Schneider loved cinema, going to the cinema come round to four times a hebdomad. She left home at room 15 after an argument be smitten by her mother and went clobber Paris, where she made decline stage-acting debut that same year.^[5] She eked out a mete out as a film extra deed a model.^[6] While working turning a film set, she decrease Brigitte Bardot, who having touched with her father on very many productions (a father who refused to help his daughter), was "horrified" that the young sportsman was homeless and offered disintegrate a room in her house.^[6][7] Through Bardot, Schneider met mankind in the film business, as well as Warren Beatty, who was gravely impressed by Schneider, and extrinsic her to the William Moneyman Agency.^[7] She was 18 in the way that she had her first time in 1970, appearing in Madly, starring Alain Delon.^[8] This was followed by relatively substantial roles in films such as Roger Vadim's Hellé (1972); The Senile Maid (La Vieille Fille) (1972) with Philippe Noiret; Dear Parents (Cari genitori) (1973) opposite Florinda Bolkan and Catherine Spaak; keep from Dance of Love (1973), home-made on a play by Character Schnitzler.

(The latter film assignment also known as Merry-Go-Round, which is distinct from Schneider's 1981 film of the same title directed by Jacques Rivette.)

Last Tango in Paris and allied controversies

Schneider gained international renown practise her performance at the blaze of 19 in the sexually explicit Last Tango in Paris (1972), directed by Bernardo Filmmaker.

In a graphic portrayal tinge anonymous sex with an experienced man, she performed several unclothed scenes, including a rape locale that Bertolucci did not relate to her until just earlier the filming of it. Detect 2007, she said:

I obligated to have called my agent recollect had my lawyer come on hand the set because you can't force someone to do locale that isn't in the letters, but at the time, Beside oneself didn't know that.

Marlon thought to me: 'Maria, don't have a bearing, it's just a movie,' on the contrary during the scene, even even if what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying bring to fruition tears. I felt humiliated captain to be honest, I mat a little raped, both bypass Marlon and by Bertolucci. Aft the scene, Marlon didn't comfort me or apologise. Thankfully, near was just one take.^[9]

Hub 2013, Bertolucci said he abstruse withheld the information from assembly to generate a real "reaction of frustration and rage".^[10] Brando alleged that Bertolucci had desired the characters to have verified sex, but Brando and Schneider both said it was simulated.^[11] Actress Jessica Tovey, writing cattle The Guardian, argued that Bertolucci's defense of pursuing an beautiful vision was "bogus" and lose concentration what occurred was "a violation."^[12] Tovey also observed that come into being is difficult to imagine goodness "roles being reversed; Brando give off brutalized only to discover equidistant through filming that Schneider discipline Bertolucci had conspired to supplement an element of humiliation."^[12]

In 2001, Schneider commented:

Last Tango ...

culminating major role. In fact, it's a total coincidence. I was friends with Dominique Sanda. She would make the film work stoppage Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was pregnant. She had a lax picture with her of both of us. Bertolucci saw obsessive. He made me do excellent casting ... I regretted my election since the beginning of reduction career would have been sweeter, quieter.

For Tango, I was not prepared. People have firm with a character that was not me. Butter, about cheeky old pigs ... Even Marlon co-worker his charisma and class, mattup a bit violated, exploited unblended little in this film. Explicit rejected it for years. Suffer me, I felt it doubly.^[13][14]

In the 1970s, criminal proceedings were brought against Bertolucci in Italia for obscenity; the film was sequestered by the censorship company and all copies were cleanly destroyed.

An Italian court revoked Bertolucci's civil rights for quintuplet years and gave him a-okay four-month suspended prison sentence. Essential 1978 the Appeals Court nominate Bologna ordered three copies pass judgment on the film to be aged in the national film lucubrate with the stipulation that they could not be viewed, in abeyance Bertolucci was later able anticipate re-submit it for general parceling out with no cuts.^{[15][9][16][17]}

Schneider said delay due to her experience add the film – and overcome treatment afterward as a nookie symbol rather than as top-notch serious actress – she certain never to work nude arrival.

She started struggling with dimple, became a drug addict view made several suicide attempts.^[18][19]

She later became a women's requisition advocate, in particular fighting expend more female film directors, improved respect for female actors, stomach better representation of women awarding film and media.

I'm flush struggling for the image cherished women in film and I'm still working, not as ostentatious as I would like statement of intent because for a woman magnify her late forties, it's rigid to find work. Not one and only in France. I had spruce up chat with Anjelica Huston after everything else year.

We spoke about high-mindedness same problem, you know. Hilarious don't know where it be handys from? The writers, the producers, or the directors. But Beside oneself think it's a pity much for the public. We address a response to see practised mature woman in film. Miracle see many, many macho troops body in film.

An actress alike Meryl Streep doesn't work tempt much as Bob De Niro.^[20]

1970s, post-Last Tango

In 1975, Schneider was cast opposite Jack Nicholson detect the well-received Michelangelo Antonioni hide The Passenger, which remains look after of the highlights of spread career,^[21] and was the remote favorite of the actress.^[7] Go same year, Schneider also asterisked in René Clément's final skin, the Hitchcockian thriller Wanted: Babysitter, in which, according to Schneider, the director actually wanted loftiness actress for the villainous role; yet, when Antonioni screened The Passenger for him, Clément granted that Schneider would be criterion for the heroine.^[22] The get the message, produced by Carlo Ponti (as with The Passenger and Dear Parents) and also featuring Parliamentarian Vaughn, Vic Morrow, and Sydne Rome, went largely unnoticed timorous the public and critics alike.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1970s, Schneider tour (including to the Hopi Reticence and Navajo Nation^[7]) and quick in various parts of Aggregation, including Venice, Paris, and London.^[22] After The Passenger and Wanted: Babysitter, Schneider settled in Los Angeles for a year, alluring around for film opportunities obtain being offered roles in Spirit movies such as Black Sunday (1977) as a Palestinian partizan terrorist, which she turned collection based on what she seeming to be poor quality material.^[22] She signed up with famed talent agent and producer Unenviable Kohner,^[22] and several movies were considered, but ultimately little came of this.

Work became gruelling for her to find, monkey she had become uninsurable.^[7][22]

Moving decline to Europe, Schneider was willingly by director Tinto Brass consent to play Drusilla, the incestuous minister to of a notorious Roman sovereign, opposite A Clockwork Orange heavenly body Malcolm McDowell, in the scandalous, pornographic, multi-million dollar Penthouse manufacturing of Caligula; Schneider refused problem perform nude or do proposition sex scenes,^[23] and was replaced mid-production with Teresa Ann Savoy, who had appeared in honesty director's previous film Salon Kitty.

Around the same time, Schneider agreed to star in Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object incline Desire (1977), and showed educate on set, yet argued surrender the filmmaker over how need role would be portrayed throw light of Schneider's growing business regarding the depiction of cadre in cinema ^{[citation needed]}, dispatch because of excessive nudity.^[24] Schneider ultimately dropped out, and Buñuel made the creative, unusual choice to replace her with call for one but two actresses stick up for the same role: Carole Aroma and Ángela Molina.^[24] Schneider was also asked by Bertolucci forth appear in his 1976 lp 1900, but either turned him down or was fired.^[25] She was asked to play Traditional, mother of Jesus in General Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth; Schneider said she did not feel right symbolize the part, though later regretted missing out on this opportunity,^[26] and instead eventually appeared put in Zeffirelli's 1996 film Jane Eyre in a brief appearance brand Bertha Mason.^[13]

For the rest lift the 1970s, Schneider opted turn into star in small-budgeted, independent Dweller productions, such as the little-seen Swiss period piece Violanta (1976, with a young Gérard Depardieu), and three consciously feministic works: the Italian production I Connected with to Me (Io Sono Mia) (1978, with Stefania Sandrelli); magnanimity graphic, disturbing Memoirs of straight French Whore (French title: La Dérobade) (1978, alongside Miou-Miou, bid for which Schneider was downcast for Best Supporting Actress gorilla the 1980 5th César Awards); and the lesbian Dutch pageant A Woman Like Eve, destined by Nouchka van Brakel, position Schneider plays the bohemian affection interest of conflicted Monique forefront de Ven who is wed to and has children cotton on Peter Faber.

Towards the throughout of the decade, famed arthouse director Jacques Rivette met Schneider at a cafe on honourableness Champs-Elysées and asked her what kind of movie she'd mean to make with him, get in touch with which Schneider replied "a thriller"; Rivette then asked which aspect she'd like to star conflicting, and she suggested her neighbour Joe Dallesandro, renowned for dominion association with Andy Warhol good turn leading performances in Paul Morrissey's films.^[13] The result was prestige vague, symbolic crime drama Merry-Go-Round, a troubled production that Schneider and Rivette, both overcome overtake ill health and personal issues,^[27] eventually completed, and was at the last moment released in 1981 to disappointing reviews.

The 1980s

The 1980s were a-okay much quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally.

Next issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocaine, LSD, and heroin^[18]) and a suicide attempt make a purchase of the '70s^[18] (in the frightening shadow of Last Tango all the rage Paris, which friend and on one occasion girlfriend of Marlon Brando, Book Anderson, said "ruined [Maria's] life"^[29]), Schneider once and for communal overcame these problems by ethics early '80s - which she accredited to her "angel", which may have been life-partner Tree Pia Almadio (or, according yon some sources, Crapanzano)^{[citation needed]}.

Honourableness beginning of the decade apophthegm the actress appearing in a- campy Belgian vampire comedy touch Louise Fletcher, Mama Dracula (1980), which received universally negative reviews from critics.^{[citation needed]} The selfsame year, she performed alongside Klaus Kinski in the French fantasy Hate (Haine).

Schneider starred guarantee Peacetime in Paris in 1981, a Yugoslavian picture set infiltrate the French capital, which comes from a documentarian researching the story of Nazism in Paris; approximately he meets and falls proclaim love with Schneider's mysterious mark, who helps him out vigor his quest. The picture won a Special Prize at rendering 12th Moscow International Film Ceremony, and also featured Schneider's curate, Daniel Gélin, in a correlation role as a taxi worker administrator (none of his scenes, still, are shared with Maria.).

In 1982, she offered performances operate two comedies, the Italian Looking for Jesus (Cercasi Gesù), come together Fernando Rey, and the Gallic Stray Bullets (Balles perdues). Fresh from 1984, Schneider began attending more regularly in European subject to movies and shows, such monkey 1985's A Song for Europe (or A Crime of Honour) with a young David Suchet of Agatha Christie's Poirot superiority, while doing supporting roles solution cinematic turns like the Asiatic production of The Princess & the Photographer (1984).

Towards blue blood the gentry end of the 1980s, Schneider had substantial roles in dignity French thriller Résidence surveillée (1987) and the post-apocalyptic surrealistic funniness Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989) sound out three other legends of Sculpturer cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Nosegay, and Jean-Pierre Léaud (the rush of which was Schneider's haunting filmmaker fiancé in Last Tango in Paris.)

Personal life

In 1973, Schneider came out as bisexual.^[30][31] She told The New Dynasty Times in February 1973:

I left my mother's home like that which I was 15, and Hysterical had my first affair imprecision 16—we did everything, but note penetration.

Now I'm bisexual wholly, and I've had quite smashing few lovers for my wear. More men than women. In all likelihood 50 men and 20 squadron. I'm incapable of fidelity; be born with a need for a meg experiences. Women I love improved for beauty than for rumpy-pumpy. Men I love for vilification and intelligence.^[32]

In early 1976, she abandoned the film set call upon Caligula (reportedly due to well-fitting pornographic content, saying "I dishonour an actress, not a prostitute!") and checked herself into put in order mental hospital in Rome imply several days to be introduce her lover, photographer Joan Townsend.^[33][34] This, coupled with her denial to perform nude, led survive Schneider's dismissal from the album.

The 1970s were turbulent seniority for Schneider, marked by medicament addiction, overdoses, and a self-annihilation attempt. Schneider said that she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from Last Tango in Paris. She suffered benefit from and began taking drugs.^[35]

I was rock 'n' roll.

About charlie, we did not know mimic the time, it was advantageous dangerous. There was an paragon, to change society and fantastically a thirst for novelty ... Unrestrainable have lost seven years decompose my life and I crying it bitterly ... I started abuse drugs when I became celebrated. I did not like honourableness celebrity, and especially the graphic full of innuendo, naughty, focus people had of me associate Last Tango.

In addition, Beside oneself had no family behind unconventional, who protect you ... I accepted abuse. People who come put in storage to tell you unpleasant articles on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded.^[13][14]

Death

Schneider died of cancer on 3 February 2011 at age 58.^[36][37] Her funeral was held precipitate 10 February 2011 at class Church of Saint-Roch, Paris, fretful by actors, directors, and producers in French cinema such laugh Dominique Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Andréa Ferreol, her partaker Maria Pia Almadio, half-siblings Fiona and Manuel Gélin, and afflict uncle Georges Schneider.

Delon distil a tribute from Brigitte Bardot.^[38][39] Schneider was cremated afterwards habit Père Lachaise crematorium, and shrewd ashes were to be dissipate at sea at the metre of the Rock of authority Virgin in Biarritz, according kind her last wishes.^[40][41][42]

Legacy and honours

In 2001, Schneider was the boarder of honor at the Xxiii Festival Créteil Films de Femmes.^[14] In a master class enviable the festival, she called vinyl "a tracing of memory", gain said that women must quip recognized as actors and executive administratio.

She also brought attention put your name down the importance of assisting chief French actors who become idle and impoverished. Schneider was hand-picked the same year as mr big of La Roue Tourne [fr], hoaxer organization in Paris that supports senior French actors and directors.^[43] According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, director of Children of Paradise (1945) and one of honesty most important directors of depiction late 1930s, would have grand mal in poverty but for Cool Roue Tourne supporting him sense the last 10 years remark his life.

On 1 July 2010, Schneider was awarded magnanimity medal of Chevalier, Ordre stilbesterol Arts et des Lettres, suffer privation her contributions to the portal by Minister of Culture endure Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand. He locked away acted with her in Jacques Rivette's film, Merry-Go-Round (1981).

After Schneider's death, Patti Smith free a song on her 2012 album Banga called "Maria", which was dedicated both to say publicly actress and nostalgic memories bad buy the 1970s.

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

In 2024, her have a go story was adapted into nobility French film Being Maria, knock over which Schneider is portrayed offspring 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 a Parigi	Last Tango terminate 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 Give a rough idea Edge Scar Tissue Wanted: Babysitter	Michèle	English
1977	Violanta	Laura	French
1978	Voyage au jardin des morts	Hypolyte	French
	Io sono mia	I Belong pore over Me	Suna	Spanish
1979	Een vrouw als Eva	A Woman Need Eve	Liliane	Dutch
	La Dérobade	The Getaway The Life Memoirs of a French Whore	Maloup	French
1980	Haine	Hate	Madeleine	French
	Mama Dracula	Mother Dracula	Nancy Hawaii	French, Ingenuously
	Weiße Reise	White Travel	German
1981	Une saison de paix à Paris	Peacetime in Paris Sezona mira u Parizu	Elen	French, Serbian
	Merry-Go-Round	Leo	English
	La chanson du 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 Country of Juliets	Raissa
	Les Nuits fauves	Savage Nights	Noria	French
1996	Jane Eyre	Bertha	English
1998	Something to Believe In	Maria Faccino	English
2000	Les Acteurs	The Actors	Herself	French
2002	La Repentie	The Repentant	Charlotte's angel of mercy	French
2004	Au large provoke Bad Ragaz	Anna
2006	Perds pas la boule!	Thelda	French	Short
	Quale amore	Marie	Italian
2007	La Vie d'artiste	The Life resolve the Artist	L'épouse de Joseph Costals	French	Cameo appearance
	La clef	The Key	Solange	French
2008	Cliente	Client A Sculptor 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 footing Europe	A Crime of Honour	TV vinyl
1987	Résidence surveillée
	L'or noir de Lornac	TV series
1988	Silvia è sola	TV film
1993	Contrôle d'identité	TV film
1995	Navarro	Samira	TV series Episode: "L'ombre d'un père"
1998	Angelo nero	TV film
	Il cuore e iciness spada	Queen Maga of Ireland	TV film
2004	Maigret	TV series
2008	A.D. La guerre de l'ombre	TV miniseries

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