Maria Schneider (actress)

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Maria Schneider with Helmut Berger in Le Baiser

Maria Schneider (born March 27, 1952 in Paris) is a French actress who is most famous for playing "Jeanne" opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris.

She is the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and German model Marie Christine Schneider.

Following her success and critical acclaim in Last Tango in Paris she disappeared from film for some time, reportedly becoming addicted to heroin. In 1975 she abandoned a film set and checked herself into a mental hospital in Rome for several days with a woman she described as her lover. She did not work in film for several years, though she eventually resumed her career, appearing in over 30, mostly European films.

Filmography

• Les Acteurs (2000)
• Something to Believe In (1998)
• Jane Eyre (1996)
• Les Nuits fauves (Savage Nights, 1992)
• Au pays des Juliets (In the Country of Juliets, 1992)
• Écrans de sable (Sand Screens, 1992)
• Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989)
• Résidence surveillée (1987)
• Merry-Go-Round (1983)
• Balles perdues (Stray Bullets, 1982)
• Cercasi Gesù (1982)
• Sezona mira u Parizu (1981)
• Mamma Dracula (1980)
• Weiße Reise (1980)
• Vrouw als Eva, Een (A Woman Called Eva, 1979)
• La Dérobade (Memoirs of a French Whore, 1979)
• Haine (Hate, 1979)
• Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (Just a Gigolo, 1979)
• Io sono mia (I Belong to Me, 1978)
• Violanta (1977)
• (The Passenger, 1975)
• Jeune fille libre le soir (The Babysitter, 1975)
• Reigen (Dance of Love, 1973)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• Cari genitori (Dear Parents, 1972)
• Hellé (1971)
• La Vieille fille (1971)
• Les Femmes (1969)

External links

• [1975 interview with Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times]
• [Biography (in French) at Allocine.com]
• [Short biography by Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide]

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