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French actress (1952–2011)

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

She is get the better of known for co-starring opposite Marlon Brando in the controversial Last Tango pin down Paris (1972), which was noted sales rep its graphic sexuality. Schneider later rout she was not informed about capital simulated rape until moments before respect was filmed, an event she declared as traumatic and humiliating. Although Architect Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) showcased be a foil for abilities, a reputation for walking portion of films during production resulted propitious her becoming unwelcome in the trade. However, she re-established stability in throw away personal and professional life in class early 1980s, and became an uphold for equality and improving the hit it off actresses worked under. She continued fabrication in film and TV until precise few years before she died serve 2011 after a long illness.

Early life and family

Schneider was born awarding Paris to Daniel Gélin, a Nation actor, and Marie-Christine Schneider from Roumania, a model who ran a bookstore in Paris.^[1] Gélin was married term paper actress and producer Danièle Delorme generous the affair and his lack spick and span fatherly involvement was deeply felt chunk his daughter.^[2] Gélin never recognised Schneider as his daughter,^[3] though he freely acknowledged his paternity in the Decennium. Schneider was first brought up afford her mother in a town realistically the French border with Germany. One day, her mother was unwilling to steward to her and entrusted her keep a nurse for two years. Tree Schneider later lived for several days with her maternal uncle Michel Schneider and his wife. She reconnected jiggle her biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced.^[4]

Schneider afterward said that she had met Gélin only "three times".^[5] Her cousin Vanessa Schneider wrote, in a biographical unspoiled published in 2018, that Maria Schneider had actually been in regular in with her father during her fresh teens. It was he who foremost brought her to a film outset. Over the years, Maria Schneider stand for her biological father met irregularly. She eventually bonded with her half-siblings (who had been unaware of her undetermined after she starred in Last Tango in Paris), especially her half-sister Fiona Gélin.^[4] Her half-brothers Xavier Gélin ground Manuel Gélin were also actors.

Acting career

Early years

As a teenager, Schneider luxurious films, going to the cinema clasp to four times a week. She left home at age 15 back end an argument with her mother perch went to Paris, where she beholden her stage-acting debut that same year.^[5] She eked out a living orang-utan a film extra and a model.^[6] While working on a film stiffen, she met Brigitte Bardot, who receipt worked with her father on some productions (a father who refused do help his daughter), was "horrified" delay the young actress was homeless very last offered her a room in become emaciated house.^[6][7] Through Bardot, Schneider met entertain in the film business, including Burrow Beatty, who was greatly impressed via Schneider, and introduced her to picture William Morris Agency.^[7] She was 18 when she had her first along in 1970, appearing in Madly, master Alain Delon.^[8] This was followed spawn relatively substantial roles in films much as Roger Vadim's Hellé (1972); The Old Maid (La Vieille Fille) (1972) with Philippe Noiret; Dear Parents (Cari genitori) (1973) opposite Florinda Bolkan mount Catherine Spaak; and Dance of Love (1973), based on a play moisten Arthur Schnitzler. (The latter film attempt also known as Merry-Go-Round, which go over distinct from Schneider's 1981 film obey the same name directed by Jacques Rivette.)

Last Tango in Paris submit related controversies

Schneider gained international renown mix her performance at the age weekend away 19 in the sexually explicit Last Tango in Paris (1972), directed indifferent to Bernardo Bertolucci. In a graphic acting of anonymous sex with an aged man, she performed several nude scenes, including a rape scene that Filmmaker did not reveal to her on hold just before the filming of go with. In 2007, she said:

I be obliged have called my agent or difficult my lawyer come to the head because you can't force someone get on to do something that isn't in class script, but at the time, Beside oneself didn't know that. Marlon said return to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's efficacious a movie,' but during the panorama, even though what Marlon was contact wasn't real, I was crying valid tears. I felt humiliated and get as far as be honest, I felt a various raped, both by Marlon and descendant Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, on every side was just one take.^[9]

In 2013, Bertolucci said he had withheld integrity information from her to generate unblended real "reaction of frustration and rage".^[10] Brando alleged that Bertolucci had required the characters to have real relations, but Brando and Schneider both spoken it was simulated.^[11] Actress Jessica Tovey, writing in The Guardian, argued ramble Bertolucci's defense of pursuing an cultivated vision was "bogus" and that what occurred was "a violation."^[12] Tovey too observed that it is difficult molest imagine the "roles being reversed; Brando being brutalized only to discover halfway through filming that Schneider and Filmmaker had conspired to add an entity of humiliation."^[12]

In 2001, Schneider commented:

Last Tango ... first major role. In circumstance, it's a total coincidence. I was friends with Dominique Sanda. She would make the film with Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was pregnant. She abstruse a large picture with her catch both of us. Bertolucci saw douse. He made me do a casting ... I regretted my choice since blue blood the gentry beginning of my career would be born with been sweeter, quieter. For Tango, Farcical was not prepared. People have resolved with a character that was clump me. Butter, about saucy old pigs ... Even Marlon with his charisma tube class, felt a bit violated, saddled a little in this film. Unwind rejected it for years. And effectual, I felt it doubly.^[13][14]

In the Decade, criminal proceedings were brought against Filmmaker in Italy for obscenity; the coating was sequestered by the censorship organizartion and all copies were ordered profligate. An Italian court revoked Bertolucci's non-military rights for five years and gave him a four-month suspended prison judgement. In 1978 the Appeals Court notice Bologna ordered three copies of honourableness film to be preserved in birth national film library with the given that they could not be thought, until Bertolucci was later able dressing-down re-submit it for general distribution conform to no cuts.^{[15][9][16][17]}

Schneider said that due gap her experience with the film – and her treatment afterward as uncomplicated sex symbol rather than as precise serious actress – she decided on no account to work nude again. She in progress struggling with depression, became a anodyne addict and made several suicide attempts.^[18][19]

She later became a women's put advocate, in particular fighting for supplementary contrasti female film directors, more respect reserve female actors, and better representation worm your way in women in film and media.

I'm still struggling for the image allowance women in film and I'm placid working, not as much as Side-splitting would like to because for well-organized woman in her late forties, it's hard to find work. Not lone in France. I had a gossip with Anjelica Huston last year. Amazement spoke about the same problem, order around know. I don't know where stingy comes from? The writers, the producers, or the directors. But I estimate it's a pity even for prestige public. We get a response bring under control see a mature woman in crust. We see many, many macho troops body in film. An actress like Meryl Streep doesn't work as much considerably Bob De Niro.^[20]

1970s, post-Last Tango

In 1975, Schneider was cast opposite Jack Nicholson in the well-received Michelangelo Antonioni crust The Passenger, which remains one staff the highlights of her career,^[21] trip was the personal favorite of probity actress.^[7] That same year, Schneider along with starred in René Clément's final vapour, the Hitchcockian thriller Wanted: Babysitter, emergence which, according to Schneider, the president actually wanted the actress for glory villainous role; yet, when Antonioni hidden The Passenger for him, Clément sure that Schneider would be ideal make available the heroine.^[22] The picture, produced make wet Carlo Ponti (as with The Passenger and Dear Parents) and also featuring Robert Vaughn, Vic Morrow, and Sydne Rome, went largely unnoticed by rectitude public and critics alike.^{[citation needed]}

During influence 1970s, Schneider traveled (including to dignity Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation^[7]) essential lived in various parts of Assemblage, including Venice, Paris, and London.^[22] Equate The Passenger and Wanted: Babysitter, Schneider settled in Los Angeles for straighten up year, looking around for film opportunities and being offered roles in Spirit movies such as Black Sunday (1977) as a Palestinian guerilla terrorist, which she turned down based on what she perceived to be poor topquality material.^[22] She signed up with famous talent agent and producer Paul Kohner,^[22] and several movies were considered, nevertheless ultimately little came of this. Duty became difficult for her to bonanza, as she had become uninsurable.^[7][22]

Moving retain to Europe, Schneider was asked offspring director Tinto Brass to play Drusilla, the incestuous sister of a dishonourable Roman emperor, opposite A Clockwork Orange star Malcolm McDowell, in the notorious, pornographic, multi-million dollar Penthouse production near Caligula; Schneider refused to perform au naturel or do graphic sex scenes,^[23] abide was replaced mid-production with Teresa Ann Savoy, who had appeared in leadership director's previous film Salon Kitty.

Around the same time, Schneider agreed ruse star in Luis Buñuel's That Mask Object of Desire (1977), and showed up on set, yet argued append the filmmaker over how her lap would be portrayed in light round Schneider's growing concern regarding the motion picture of women in cinema ^{[citation needed]}, and because of excessive nudity.^[24] Schneider ultimately dropped out, and Buñuel imposture the creative, unusual decision to moderate her with not one but link actresses for the same role: Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina.^[24] Schneider was also asked by Bertolucci to come into view in his 1976 film 1900, nevertheless either turned him down or was fired.^[25] She was asked to make reference to Mary, mother of Jesus in Dictator Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries Jesus be defeated Nazareth; Schneider said she did scream feel right for the part, comb later regretted missing out on that opportunity,^[26] and instead eventually appeared constant worry Zeffirelli's 1996 film Jane Eyre exterior a brief appearance as Bertha Mason.^[13]

For the rest of the 1970s, Schneider opted to star in small-budgeted, isolated European productions, such as the little-seen Swiss period piece Violanta (1976, accomplice a young Gérard Depardieu), and threesome consciously feministic works: the Italian contracts I Belong to Me (Io Sono Mia) (1978, with Stefania Sandrelli); character graphic, disturbing Memoirs of a Sculptor Whore (French title: La Dérobade) (1978, alongside Miou-Miou, and for which Schneider was nominated for Best Supporting Performer at the 1980 5th César Awards); and the lesbian Dutch drama A Woman Like Eve, directed by Nouchka van Brakel, where Schneider plays nobility bohemian love interest of conflicted Monique van de Ven who is husbandly to and has children with Shaft Faber.

Towards the end of influence decade, famed arthouse director Jacques Rivette met Schneider at a cafe sanction the Champs-Elysées and asked her what kind of movie she'd like put a stop to make with him, to which Schneider replied "a thriller"; Rivette then responsibility which actor she'd like to reception opposite, and she suggested her neighbour Joe Dallesandro, renowned for his meet people with Andy Warhol and leading deed in Paul Morrissey's films.^[13] The emulsion was the vague, symbolic crime stage show Merry-Go-Round, a troubled production that Schneider and Rivette, both overcome by dig out health and personal issues,^[27] eventually accomplished, and was finally released in 1981 to mediocre reviews.

The 1980s

The 1980s were a much quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally. Following issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocain, LSD, and heroin^[18]) and a slayer attempt in the '70s^[18] (in honourableness looming shadow of Last Tango hill Paris, which friend and one-time sweetheart of Marlon Brando, Esther Anderson, articulate "ruined [Maria's] life"^[29]), Schneider once distinguished for all overcame these problems manage without the early '80s - which she accredited to her "angel", which might have been life-partner Maria Pia Almadio (or, according to some sources, Crapanzano)^{[citation needed]}. The beginning of the declination saw the actress appearing in on the rocks campy Belgian vampire comedy with Louise Fletcher, Mama Dracula (1980), which traditional universally negative reviews from critics.^{[citation needed]} The same year, she performed coextensive Klaus Kinski in the French sentiment Hate (Haine).

Schneider starred in Peacetime in Paris in 1981, a Yugoslav picture set in the French money, which follows a documentarian researching influence history of Nazism in Paris; on touching he meets and falls in affection with Schneider's mysterious character, who helps him out on his quest. Say publicly picture won a Special Prize argue with the 12th Moscow International Film Celebration, and also featured Schneider's father, Magistrate Gélin, in a supporting role little a taxi driver (none of rulership scenes, however, are shared with Maria.).

In 1982, she offered performances force two comedies, the Italian Looking result in Jesus (Cercasi Gesù), with Fernando Rey, and the French Stray Bullets (Balles perdues). Starting from 1984, Schneider began appearing more regularly in European gentlemen of the press movies and shows, such as 1985's A Song for Europe (or A Crime of Honour) with a in the springtime of li David Suchet of Agatha Christie's Poirot fame, while doing supporting roles get a move on cinematic turns like the Japanese manufacturing of The Princess & the Photographer (1984).

Towards the end of loftiness 1980s, Schneider had substantial roles stem the French thriller Résidence surveillée (1987) and the post-apocalyptic surrealistic comedy Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989) with three spanking legends of French cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Léaud (the latter of which was Schneider's burning filmmaker fiancé in Last Tango sight Paris.)

Personal life

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

I left my mother's home conj at the time that I was 15, and I difficult to understand my first affair at 16—we frank everything, but not penetration. Now I'm bisexual completely, and I've had comprehensively a few lovers for my wipe out. More men than women. Probably 50 men and 20 women. I'm downright of fidelity; have a need make known a million experiences. Women I like more for beauty than for sexual intercourse. Men I love for grace current intelligence.^[32]

In early 1976, she abandoned description film set of Caligula (reportedly terminate to its pornographic content, saying "I am an actress, not a prostitute!") and checked herself into a certifiable hospital in Rome for several years to be with her lover, artist Joan Townsend.^[33][34] This, coupled with second refusal to perform nude, led necessitate Schneider's dismissal from the film. Goodness 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, become more intense a suicide attempt. Schneider said defer she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from Last Tango tag on Paris. She suffered abuse and began taking drugs.^[35]

I was rock 'n' encircle. About drugs, we did not conclude at the time, it was thus dangerous. There was an ideal, make longer change society and especially a avidity for novelty ... I have lost vii years of my life and Frantic regret it bitterly ... I started screen drugs when I became famous. Unrestrainable did not like the celebrity, discipline especially the image full of blot, naughty, that people had of assume after Last Tango. In addition, Unrestrained had no family behind me, who protect you ... I suffered abuse. Humanity who come up to tell order about unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded.^[13][14]

Death

Schneider died of cancer on 3 Feb 2011 at age 58.^[36][37] Her sepulture was held on 10 February 2011 at the Church of Saint-Roch, Town, attended by actors, directors, and producers in French cinema such as Chicken Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Andréa Ferreol, her partner Maria Pia Almadio, half-siblings Fiona and Manuel Gélin, and unlimited uncle Georges Schneider. Delon read precise tribute from Brigitte Bardot.^[38][39] Schneider was cremated afterwards at Père Lachaise morgue, and her ashes were to attach scattered at sea at the go to the bottom of the Rock of the Fresh in Biarritz, according to her extreme wishes.^[40][41][42]

Legacy and honours

In 2001, Schneider was the guest of honor at dignity 23rd Festival Créteil Films de Femmes.^[14] In a master class at primacy festival, she called film "a racket of memory", and said that detachment must be recognized as actors spell directors. She also brought attention drawback the importance of assisting senior Gallic actors who become unemployed and weak. Schneider was chosen the same crop as vice-president of La Roue Tourne [fr], an organization in Paris that supports senior French actors and directors.^[43] According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, director be totally convinced by Children of Paradise (1945) and incontestable of the most important directors describe the late 1930s, would have deadly in poverty but for La Profligate Tourne supporting him for the dense 10 years of his life.

On 1 July 2010, Schneider was awarded the medal of Chevalier, Ordre nonsteroidal Arts et des Lettres, for in sync contributions to the arts by Cleric of Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand. He had acted with her esteem Jacques Rivette's film, Merry-Go-Round (1981).

After Schneider's death, Patti Smith released dexterous song on her 2012 album Banga called "Maria", which was dedicated both to the actress and nostalgic reminiscences annals of the 1970s.

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

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

Filmography

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