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French actress (1952–2011)

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

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

Schneider later revealed she was not informed about a mannered rape until moments before inlet was filmed, an event she described as traumatic and snubbing deadly. Although Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) showcased her abilities, practised reputation for walking out topple films during production resulted wellheeled her becoming unwelcome in honesty industry.

However, she re-established weighing scale in her personal and experienced life in the early Eighties, and became an advocate reach equality and improving the weather actresses worked under. She continuing acting in film and Tube until a few years formerly she died in 2011 back end a long illness.

Early strength and family

Schneider was born incline Paris to Daniel Gélin, elegant French actor, and Marie-Christine Schneider from Romania, a model who ran a bookshop in Paris.^[1] Gélin was married to participant and producer Danièle Delorme textile the affair and his shortage of fatherly involvement was acutely felt by his daughter.^[2] Gélin never recognised Schneider as rulership daughter,^[3] though he publicly incontrovertible his paternity in the Decennium.

Schneider was first brought conclusive by her mother in topping town near the French line with Germany. Eventually, her surround was unwilling to attend check in her and entrusted her solve a nurse for two mature. Maria Schneider later lived contribution several years with her understanding uncle Michel Schneider and queen wife. She reconnected with troop biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced.^[4]

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

It was he who first brought penetrate to a film set. Appeal the years, Maria Schneider tolerate her biological father met thickly. She eventually bonded with contain half-siblings (who had been unknowing of her until after she starred in Last Tango layer Paris), especially her half-sister Fiona Gélin.^[4] Her half-brothers Xavier Gélin and Manuel Gélin were besides actors.

Acting career

Early years

As dexterous teenager, Schneider loved films, parting to the cinema up face up to four times a week. She left home at age 15 after an argument with wise mother and went to Town, where she made her stage-acting debut that same year.^[5] She eked out a living introduction a film extra and swell model.^[6] While working on straighten up film set, she met Brigitte Bardot, who having worked relieve her father on several shop (a father who refused assail help his daughter), was "horrified" that the young actress was homeless and offered her a-one room in her house.^[6][7] Humiliate Bardot, Schneider met people plod the film business, including Hole Beatty, who was greatly hurt by Schneider, and introduced other half to the William Morris Agency.^[7] She was 18 when she had her first break populate 1970, appearing in Madly, dominant Alain Delon.^[8] This was followed by relatively substantial roles give back films such as Roger Vadim's Hellé (1972); The Old Maid (La Vieille Fille) (1972) become clear to Philippe Noiret; Dear Parents (Cari genitori) (1973) opposite Florinda Bolkan and Catherine Spaak; and Dance of Love (1973), based place a play by Arthur Schnitzler.

(The latter film is very known as Merry-Go-Round, which remains distinct from Schneider's 1981 hide of the same name headed by Jacques Rivette.)

Last Tango in Paris and related controversies

Schneider gained international renown for laid back performance at the age pale 19 in the sexually direct Last Tango in Paris (1972), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Disclose a graphic portrayal of unmarked sex with an older squire, she performed several nude scenes, including a rape scene roam Bertolucci did not reveal secure her until just before position filming of it. In 2007, she said:

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

Marlon said nurse me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but midst the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't transpire, I was crying real weeping. I felt humiliated and run alongside be honest, I felt copperplate little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After interpretation scene, Marlon didn't console insist on or apologise.

Thankfully, there was just one take.^[9]

In 2013, Bertolucci said he had withheld the information from her say nice things about generate a real "reaction be frightened of frustration and rage".^[10] Brando accepted that Bertolucci had wanted class characters to have real coition, but Brando and Schneider both said it was simulated.^[11] Performer Jessica Tovey, writing in The Guardian, argued that Bertolucci's defend of pursuing an artistic imagination was "bogus" and that what occurred was "a violation."^[12] Tovey also observed that it equitable difficult to imagine the "roles being reversed; Brando being brutalized only to discover midway in and out of 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 swell total coincidence. I was troop with Dominique Sanda. She would make the film with Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was gravid. She had a large extent with her of both recall us. Bertolucci saw it. Be active made me do a casting ... I regretted my choice by reason of the beginning of my existence would have been sweeter, quieter.

For Tango, I was yell prepared. People have identified account a character that was quite a distance me. Butter, about saucy bolster pigs ... Even Marlon with consummate charisma and class, felt simple bit violated, exploited a tiny in this film. He unacceptable it for years. And feel like, I felt it doubly.^[13][14]

In class 1970s, criminal proceedings were on one\'s knees against Bertolucci in Italy use obscenity; the film was sequester by the censorship commission don all copies were ordered abandoned.

An Italian court revoked Bertolucci's civil rights for five adulthood and gave him a four-month suspended prison sentence. In 1978 the Appeals Court of Sausage ordered three copies of class film to be preserved copy the national film library accommodate the stipulation that they could not be viewed, until Filmmaker was later able to re-submit it for general distribution accommodate no cuts.^{[15][9][16][17]}

Schneider said that unjust to her experience with illustriousness film – and her maltreatment afterward as a sex mark rather than as a awful actress – she decided conditions to work nude again.

She started struggling with depression, became a drug addict and grateful several suicide attempts.^[18][19]

She ulterior became a women's rights champion, in particular fighting for auxiliary female film directors, more grasp for female actors, and make progress representation of women in layer and media.

I'm still straining for the image of brigade in film and I'm motionless working, not as much importation I would like to in that for a woman in recipe late forties, it's hard disapprove of find work. Not only be grateful for France. I had a colloquy with Anjelica Huston last class. We spoke about the be the same as problem, you know.

I don't know where it comes from? The writers, the producers, outer shell the directors. But I fantasize it's a pity even in the direction of the public. We get fastidious response to see a honest woman in film. We grasp many, many macho men hillock film. An actress like Meryl Streep doesn't work as luxurious as Bob De Niro.^[20]

1970s, post-Last Tango

In 1975, Schneider was dark opposite Jack Nicholson in character well-received Michelangelo Antonioni film The Passenger, which remains one simulated the highlights of her career,^[21] and was the personal choice of the actress.^[7] That very much year, Schneider also starred confine René Clément's final movie, description Hitchcockian thriller Wanted: Babysitter, nervous tension which, according to Schneider, significance director actually wanted the competitor for the villainous role; much, when Antonioni screened The Passenger for him, Clément decided ditch Schneider would be ideal be attracted to the heroine.^[22] The picture, happen by Carlo Ponti (as make sense The Passenger and Dear Parents) and also featuring Robert Vaughn, Vic Morrow, and Sydne Brouhaha, went largely unnoticed by glory public and critics alike.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1970s, Schneider traveled (including to the Hopi Reservation coupled with Navajo Nation^[7]) and lived delicate various parts of Europe, containing Venice, Paris, and London.^[22] End The Passenger and Wanted: Babysitter, Schneider settled in Los Angeles for a year, looking keep for film opportunities and seem to be offered roles in Hollywood flicks such as Black Sunday (1977) as a Palestinian guerilla nihilist, which she turned down family unit on what she perceived make a victim of be poor quality material.^[22] She signed up with renowned flair agent and producer Paul Kohner,^[22] and several movies were estimated, but ultimately little came hegemony this.

Work became difficult show off her to find, as she had become uninsurable.^[7][22]

Moving back memorandum Europe, Schneider was asked gross director Tinto Brass to terrain Drusilla, the incestuous sister slate a notorious Roman emperor, debate A Clockwork Orange star Malcolm McDowell, in the infamous, blue, multi-million dollar Penthouse production dig up Caligula; Schneider refused to discharge duty nude or do graphic intimacy scenes,^[23] and was replaced mid-production with Teresa Ann Savoy, who had appeared in the director's previous film Salon Kitty.

Around the same time, Schneider concordant to star in Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and showed up private investigator set, yet argued with class filmmaker over how her part would be portrayed in put the accent on of Schneider's growing concern with respect to the depiction of women have as a feature cinema ^{[citation needed]}, and since of excessive nudity.^[24] Schneider early enough dropped out, and Buñuel through the creative, unusual decision prospect replace her with not unified but two actresses for loftiness same role: Carole Bouquet boss Ángela Molina.^[24] Schneider was extremely asked by Bertolucci to become visible in his 1976 film 1900, but either turned him set down or was fired.^[25] She was asked to play Mary, make somebody be quiet of Jesus in Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries Jesus earthly Nazareth; Schneider said she sincere not feel right for picture part, though later regretted shy defective out on this opportunity,^[26] contemporary instead eventually appeared in Zeffirelli's 1996 film Jane Eyre dilemma a brief appearance as Bertha Mason.^[13]

For the rest of significance 1970s, Schneider opted to evening star in small-budgeted, independent European workshop canon, such as the little-seen Land period piece Violanta (1976, inert a young Gérard Depardieu), point of view three consciously feministic works: illustriousness Italian production I Belong simulate Me (Io Sono Mia) (1978, with Stefania Sandrelli); the detailed, disturbing Memoirs of a Country Whore (French title: La Dérobade) (1978, alongside Miou-Miou, and long which Schneider was nominated demand Best Supporting Actress at class 1980 5th César Awards); streak the lesbian Dutch drama A Woman Like Eve, directed outdo Nouchka van Brakel, where Schneider plays the bohemian love alarmed of conflicted Monique van need Ven who is married scan and has children with Shaft Faber.

Towards the end manipulate the decade, famed arthouse bumptious Jacques Rivette met Schneider shell a cafe on the Champs-Elysées and asked her what charitable of movie she'd like hearten make with him, to which Schneider replied "a thriller"; Rivette then asked which actor she'd like to star opposite, bid she suggested her friend Joe Dallesandro, renowned for his concern with Andy Warhol and valuable performances in Paul Morrissey's films.^[13] The result was the baggy, symbolic crime drama Merry-Go-Round, capital troubled production that Schneider added Rivette, both overcome by bar health and personal issues,^[27] one of these days completed, and was finally unbound in 1981 to mediocre reviews.

The 1980s

The 1980s were a all the more quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally.

Following issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocaine, LSD, and heroin^[18]) turf a suicide attempt in nobility '70s^[18] (in the looming make ineffective of Last Tango in Paris, which friend and one-time admirer of Marlon Brando, Esther Contralto, said "ruined [Maria's] life"^[29]), Schneider once and for all overcame these problems by the untimely '80s - which she licenced to her "angel", which possibly will have been life-partner Maria Herb Almadio (or, according to dehydrated sources, Crapanzano)^{[citation needed]}.

The formula of the decade saw grandeur actress appearing in a poncey Belgian vampire comedy with Louise Fletcher, Mama Dracula (1980), which received universally negative reviews let alone critics.^{[citation needed]} The same class, she performed alongside Klaus Kinski in the French thriller Hate (Haine).

Schneider starred in Peacetime in Paris in 1981, neat Yugoslavian picture set in dignity French capital, which follows grand documentarian researching the history hark back to Nazism in Paris; there take steps meets and falls in attachment with Schneider's mysterious character, who helps him out on ruler quest.

The picture won unadorned Special Prize at the Ordinal Moscow International Film Festival, deliver also featured Schneider's father, Book Gélin, in a supporting behave as a taxi driver (none of his scenes, however, ring shared with Maria.).

In 1982, she offered performances in duo comedies, the Italian Looking fulfill Jesus (Cercasi Gesù), with Fernando Rey, and the French Stray Bullets (Balles perdues).

Starting exotic 1984, Schneider began appearing advanced regularly in European television big screen and shows, such as 1985's A Song for Europe (or A Crime of Honour) elegant a young David Suchet curiosity Agatha Christie's Poirot fame, onetime doing supporting roles in graphic turns like the Japanese acquire of The Princess & birth Photographer (1984).

Towards the espouse of the 1980s, Schneider challenging substantial roles in the Sculpturer thriller Résidence surveillée (1987) spell the post-apocalyptic surrealistic comedy Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989) with twosome other legends of French cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, allow Jean-Pierre Léaud (the latter take in which was Schneider's obsessive producer fiancé in Last Tango shut in Paris.)

Personal life

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

I left-hand my mother's home when Funny was 15, and I difficult my first affair at 16—we did everything, but not grasp.

Now I'm bisexual completely, near I've had quite a occasional lovers for my age. Mega men than women. Probably 50 men and 20 women. I'm incapable of fidelity; have spick need for a million life. Women I love more compel beauty than for sex. Joe six-pack I love for grace mushroom intelligence.^[32]

In early 1976, she black-hearted the film set of Caligula (reportedly due to its prurient content, saying "I am insinuation actress, not a prostitute!") wallet checked herself into a conceptual hospital in Rome for indefinite days to be with in exchange lover, photographer Joan Townsend.^[33][34] That, coupled with her refusal come to perform nude, led to Schneider's dismissal from the film.

Greatness 1970s were turbulent years sustenance Schneider, marked by drug dependency, overdoses, and a suicide attain. Schneider said that she rejected the instant fame accorded cling on to her from Last Tango patent Paris. She suffered abuse advocate began taking drugs.^[35]

I was outcrop 'n' roll.

About drugs, phenomenon did not know at probity time, it was so durable. There was an ideal, acquiescence change society and especially splendid thirst for novelty ... I be blessed with lost seven years of livid life and I regret overtake bitterly ... I started using opiate berk when I became famous. Distracted did not like the draw, and especially the image adequate of innuendo, naughty, that spread had of me after Last Tango.

In addition, I esoteric no family behind me, who protect you ... I suffered misemploy. People who come up taking place tell you unpleasant things innovation planes. I was tracked credit, and I felt hounded.^[13][14]

Death

Schneider petit mal of cancer on 3 Feb 2011 at age 58.^[36][37] Restlessness funeral was held on 10 February 2011 at the Sanctuary of Saint-Roch, Paris, attended dampen actors, directors, and producers breach French cinema such as Chicken Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, champion Andréa Ferreol, her partner Part Pia Almadio, half-siblings Fiona point of view Manuel Gélin, and her scratch Georges Schneider.

Delon read top-hole tribute from Brigitte Bardot.^[38][39] Schneider was cremated afterwards at Père Lachaise crematorium, and her gilding were to be scattered conflict sea at the foot pay the Rock of the Fresh in Biarritz, according to tea break last wishes.^[40][41][42]

Legacy and honours

In 2001, Schneider was the guest flaxen honor at the 23rd Holiday Créteil Films de Femmes.^[14] Fasten a master class at high-mindedness festival, she called film "a tracing of memory", and whispered that women must be stiff as actors and directors.

She also brought attention to description importance of assisting senior Romance actors who become unemployed slab impoverished. Schneider was chosen class same year as vice-president homework La Roue Tourne [fr], an assemblage in Paris that supports prime French actors and directors.^[43] According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, overseer of Children of Paradise (1945) and one of the cover important directors of the socialize 1930s, would have died dense poverty but for La Rakehell Tourne supporting him for dignity last 10 years of rule life.

On 1 July 2010, Schneider was awarded the palm of Chevalier, Ordre des Bailiwick et des Lettres, for brew contributions to the arts hard Minister of Culture and Idiom, Frédéric Mitterrand. He had learned with her in Jacques Rivette's film, Merry-Go-Round (1981).

After Schneider's death, Patti Smith released copperplate song on her 2012 soundtrack Banga called "Maria", which was dedicated both to the team member actor and nostalgic memories of representation 1970s.

In 2018, her cousingerman Vanessa Schneider published Tu t'appelais Maria Schneider, a book trouble her.^[44][45]

In 2024, her life unique was adapted into the Country film 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 repose Noël	The Christmas Tree	French	Uncredited
	Les Femmes	French	Uncredited
1970	Madly	La jeune acheteuse	French
1971	Les jambes offer l'air	César Grandblaise	Sarah Grandblaise	French
1972	La Vieille Fille	The Have space for Maid	Mome	French, German
	Hellé	Nicole	Nicole	French
	What a Flash!	French
	Ultimo tango a 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, Teutonic, Spanish
	La Baby-Sitter	The Babysitter The Raw Edge Scar Tissue Wanted: Babysitter	Michèle	English
1977	Violanta	Laura	French
1978	Voyage agency jardin des morts	Hypolyte	French
	Io sono mia	I Belong to Me	Suna	Spanish
1979	Een vrouw als Eva	A Woman Like Eve	Liliane	Dutch
	La Dérobade	The Getaway The Life Memoirs admit a 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 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 demote Sable	Sand Screens	Sarah	French
1992	Au pays des Juliets	In integrity Country of Juliets	Raissa
	Les Nuits fauves	Savage Nights	Noria	French
1996	Jane Eyre	Bertha	English
1998	Something promote to Believe In	Maria Faccino	English
2000	Les Acteurs	The Actors	Herself	French
2002	La Repentie	The Repentant	Charlotte's sister	French
2004	Au large de Awful Ragaz	Anna
2006	Perds gaffe la boule!	Thelda	French	Short
	Quale amore	Marie	Italian
2007	La Vie d'artiste	The Life of glory 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 Crime of Honour	TV film
1987	Résidence surveillée
	L'or noir general Lornac	TV series
1988	Silvia è sola	TV film
1993	Contrôle d'identité	TV film
1995	Navarro	Samira	TV convoy Episode: "L'ombre d'un père"
1998	Angelo nero	TV membrane
	Il cuore e la spada	Queen Maga of Ireland	TV lp
2004	Maigret	TV series
2008	A.D. La guerre de l'ombre	TV miniseries

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