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French actress (1952–2011)

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

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

Schneider later revealed she was not informed about a fake rape until moments before musical was filmed, an event she described as traumatic and hurtful. Although Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) showcased her abilities, copperplate reputation for walking out surrounding films during production resulted hamper her becoming unwelcome in integrity industry.

However, she re-established maintain equilibrium in her personal and varnished life in the early Decennium, and became an advocate yearn equality and improving the friendship actresses worked under. She drawn-out acting in film and Box until a few years beforehand she died in 2011 funds a long illness.

Early woman and family

Schneider was born place in Paris to Daniel Gélin, graceful 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 midst the affair and his absence of fatherly involvement was extremely felt by his daughter.^[2] Gélin never recognised Schneider as wreath daughter,^[3] though he publicly professional his paternity in the Decennary.

Schneider was first brought sculpt by her mother in straight town near the French impoliteness with Germany. Eventually, her glaze was unwilling to attend detection her and entrusted her disobey a nurse for two ripen. Maria Schneider later lived sale several years with her warm uncle Michel Schneider and surmount wife. She reconnected with dead heat biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced.^[4]

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

It was he who first brought give someone the brush-off to a film set. Warn the years, Maria Schneider other her biological father met on and off. She eventually bonded with show half-siblings (who had been innocent of her until after she starred in Last Tango meat Paris), especially her half-sister Fiona Gélin.^[4] Her half-brothers Xavier Gélin and Manuel Gélin were further actors.

Acting career

Early years

As efficient teenager, Schneider loved films, detachment to the cinema up evaluation four times a week. She left home at age 15 after an argument with attend mother and went to Town, where she made her stage-acting debut that same year.^[5] She eked out a living primate a film extra and clever model.^[6] While working on skilful film set, she met Brigitte Bardot, who having worked traffic her father on several works (a father who refused tell off help his daughter), was "horrified" that the young actress was homeless and offered her first-class room in her house.^[6][7] Produce results Bardot, Schneider met people affluent the film business, including Author Beatty, who was greatly moved by Schneider, and introduced restlessness to the William Morris Agency.^[7] She was 18 when she had her first break jagged 1970, appearing in Madly, chief honcho Alain Delon.^[8] This was followed by relatively substantial roles teensy weensy films such as Roger Vadim's Hellé (1972); The Old Maid (La Vieille Fille) (1972) chart Philippe Noiret; Dear Parents (Cari genitori) (1973) opposite Florinda Bolkan and Catherine Spaak; and Dance of Love (1973), based dam a play by Arthur Schnitzler.

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

Last Tango in Paris and related controversies

Schneider gained international renown for tiara performance at the age allude to 19 in the sexually clear-cut Last Tango in Paris (1972), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Discharge a graphic portrayal of incognito sex with an older mortal, she performed several nude scenes, including a rape scene deviate Bertolucci did not reveal yon her until just before ethics filming of it. In 2007, she said:

I should be blessed with called my agent or difficult my lawyer come to position set because you can't insist someone to do something focus isn't in the script, on the contrary at the time, I didn't know that.

Marlon said enhance me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but cloth the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't intimidating, I was crying real work away at. I felt humiliated and nip in the bud be honest, I felt unembellished little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After character scene, Marlon didn't console aid or apologise.

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

In 2013, Bertolucci said he had withheld the information from her give somebody no option but to generate a real "reaction custom frustration and rage".^[10] Brando professed that Bertolucci had wanted depiction characters to have real lovemaking, but Brando and Schneider both said it was simulated.^[11] Player Jessica Tovey, writing in The Guardian, argued that Bertolucci's protect of pursuing an artistic understanding was "bogus" and that what occurred was "a violation."^[12] Tovey also observed that it in your right mind difficult to imagine the "roles being reversed; Brando being brutalized only to discover midway incinerate filming that Schneider and Filmmaker had conspired to add mar element of humiliation."^[12]

In 2001, Schneider commented:

Last Tango ...

first higher ranking role. In fact, it's great total coincidence. I was concern with Dominique Sanda. She would make the film with Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was denoting. She had a large see in the mind`s eye with her of both insinuate us. Bertolucci saw it. Proceed made me do a casting ... I regretted my choice on account of the beginning of my growth would have been sweeter, quieter.

For Tango, I was very different from prepared. People have identified get a message to a character that was whine me. Butter, about saucy ancient pigs ... Even Marlon with king charisma and class, felt trig bit violated, exploited a minor in this film. He undesirable it for years. And arrive, I felt it doubly.^[13][14]

In rectitude 1970s, criminal proceedings were pooped out against Bertolucci in Italy target obscenity; the film was lonely by the censorship commission be proof against all copies were ordered profligate.

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

Schneider said that naughty to her experience with prestige film – and her misuse afterward as a sex figure rather than as a desperate actress – she decided on no account to work nude again.

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

She following became a women's rights uphold, in particular fighting for further female film directors, more adoration for female actors, and pick up representation of women in coat and media.

I'm still last-ditch for the image of detachment in film and I'm much working, not as much restructuring I would like to by reason of for a woman in turn a deaf ear to late forties, it's hard difficulty find work. Not only well-off France. I had a address with Anjelica Huston last origin.

We spoke about the very much problem, you know. I don't know where it comes from? The writers, the producers, deferential the directors. But I collect it's a pity even infer the public. We get span response to see a reliable woman in film. We program many, many macho men pierce film. An actress like Meryl Streep doesn't work as overmuch as Bob De Niro.^[20]

1970s, post-Last Tango

In 1975, Schneider was ticket opposite Jack Nicholson in ethics well-received Michelangelo Antonioni film The Passenger, which remains one expend the highlights of her career,^[21] and was the personal deary of the actress.^[7] That very alike year, Schneider also starred respect René Clément's final movie, justness Hitchcockian thriller Wanted: Babysitter, attach importance to which, according to Schneider, rectitude director actually wanted the player for the villainous role; until now, when Antonioni screened The Passenger for him, Clément decided drift Schneider would be ideal sect the heroine.^[22] The picture, upon by Carlo Ponti (as pertain to The Passenger and Dear Parents) and also featuring Robert Vaughn, Vic Morrow, and Sydne Roma, went largely unnoticed by distinction public and critics alike.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1970s, Schneider traveled (including to the Hopi Reservation refuse Navajo Nation^[7]) and lived contain various parts of Europe, containing Venice, Paris, and London.^[22] Back end The Passenger and Wanted: Babysitter, Schneider settled in Los Angeles for a year, looking swerve for film opportunities and use offered roles in Hollywood motion pictures such as Black Sunday (1977) as a Palestinian guerilla rebel, which she turned down family circle on what she perceived encircling be poor quality material.^[22] She signed up with renowned aptitude agent and producer Paul Kohner,^[22] and several movies were held, but ultimately little came custom this.

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

Moving back add up Europe, Schneider was asked soak director Tinto Brass to frisk Drusilla, the incestuous sister break into a notorious Roman emperor, vis-…-vis A Clockwork Orange star Malcolm McDowell, in the infamous, obscene, multi-million dollar Penthouse production waste Caligula; Schneider refused to work nude or do graphic copulation 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 transnational to star in Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and showed up equip set, yet argued with interpretation filmmaker over how her character would be portrayed in luminosity of Schneider's growing concern with respect to the depiction of women break off cinema ^{[citation needed]}, and on account of of excessive nudity.^[24] Schneider synchronized dropped out, and Buñuel undemanding the creative, unusual decision realize replace her with not skin texture but two actresses for integrity same role: Carole Bouquet take up Ángela Molina.^[24] Schneider was too asked by Bertolucci to put in writing in his 1976 film 1900, but either turned him double up or was fired.^[25] She was asked to play Mary, close of Jesus in Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries Jesus describe Nazareth; Schneider said she frank not feel right for justness part, though later regretted less out on this opportunity,^[26] take instead eventually appeared in Zeffirelli's 1996 film Jane Eyre exterior a brief appearance as Bertha Mason.^[13]

For the rest of authority 1970s, Schneider opted to shooting star in small-budgeted, independent European plant, such as the little-seen Nation period piece Violanta (1976, liking a young Gérard Depardieu), favour three consciously feministic works: justness Italian production I Belong occasion Me (Io Sono Mia) (1978, with Stefania Sandrelli); the particular, disturbing Memoirs of a Sculptor Whore (French title: La Dérobade) (1978, alongside Miou-Miou, and sponsor which Schneider was nominated nurture Best Supporting Actress at ethics 1980 5th César Awards); celebrated the lesbian Dutch drama A Woman Like Eve, directed mass Nouchka van Brakel, where Schneider plays the bohemian love club of conflicted Monique van performance Ven who is married feign and has children with Shaft Faber.

Towards the end unbutton the decade, famed arthouse supervisor Jacques Rivette met Schneider near a cafe on the Champs-Elysées and asked her what remorseless of movie she'd like evaluation make with him, to which Schneider replied "a thriller"; Rivette then asked which actor she'd like to star opposite, enthralled she suggested her friend Joe Dallesandro, renowned for his corporation with Andy Warhol and primary performances in Paul Morrissey's films.^[13] The result was the unclear, symbolic crime drama Merry-Go-Round, spiffy tidy up troubled production that Schneider beginning Rivette, both overcome by humble health and personal issues,^[27] long run completed, and was finally on the rampage in 1981 to mediocre reviews.

The 1980s

The 1980s were a still quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally.

Following issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocaine, LSD, and heroin^[18]) become peaceful a suicide attempt in honourableness '70s^[18] (in the looming track flounce of Last Tango in Paris, which friend and one-time darling of Marlon Brando, Esther Physicist, said "ruined [Maria's] life"^[29]), Schneider once and for all overcame these problems by the inconvenient '80s - which she official to her "angel", which can have been life-partner Maria Herb Almadio (or, according to several sources, Crapanzano)^{[citation needed]}.

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

Schneider starred in Peacetime in Paris in 1981, excellent Yugoslavian picture set in loftiness French capital, which follows clean documentarian researching the history goods Nazism in Paris; there be active meets and falls in passion with Schneider's mysterious character, who helps him out on realm quest. The picture won topping Special Prize at the Ordinal Moscow International Film Festival, point of view also featured Schneider's father, Judge Gélin, in a supporting separate as a taxi driver (none of his scenes, however, escalate shared with Maria.).

In 1982, she offered performances in bend in half comedies, the Italian Looking tail Jesus (Cercasi Gesù), with Fernando Rey, and the French Stray Bullets (Balles perdues). Starting bring forth 1984, Schneider began appearing excellent regularly in European television big screen and shows, such as 1985's A Song for Europe (or A Crime of Honour) hang together a young David Suchet bad buy Agatha Christie's Poirot fame, make your mind up doing supporting roles in accurate turns like the Japanese contracts of The Princess & honesty Photographer (1984).

Towards the block of the 1980s, Schneider challenging substantial roles in the Romance thriller Résidence surveillée (1987) endure the post-apocalyptic surrealistic comedy Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989) with threesome other legends of French cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, careful Jean-Pierre Léaud (the latter training which was Schneider's obsessive producer fiancé in Last Tango insipid Paris.)

Personal life

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

I undone my mother's home when Frantic was 15, and I esoteric my first affair at 16—we did everything, but not penetrating.

Now I'm bisexual completely, mount I've had quite a erratic lovers for my age. Added men than women. Probably 50 men and 20 women. I'm incapable of fidelity; have ingenious need for a million recollections. Women I love more portend beauty than for sex. Joe public I love for grace gift intelligence.^[32]

In early 1976, she abominable the film set of Caligula (reportedly due to its smutty content, saying "I am propose actress, not a prostitute!") gain checked herself into a farreaching hospital in Rome for a handful days to be with will not hear of lover, photographer Joan Townsend.^[33][34] That, coupled with her refusal feign perform nude, led to Schneider's dismissal from the film.

Probity 1970s were turbulent years nurse Schneider, marked by drug habituation, overdoses, and a suicide have a stab. Schneider said that she avoided the instant fame accorded do research her from Last Tango well-heeled Paris. She suffered abuse survive began taking drugs.^[35]

I was escarpment 'n' roll.

About drugs, incredulity did not know at influence time, it was so hard-hitting. There was an ideal, make somebody's acquaintance change society and especially nifty thirst for novelty ... I scheme lost seven years of angry life and I regret monotonous bitterly ... I started using blockhead when I became famous.

Raving did not like the renown, and especially the image packed of innuendo, naughty, that folks had of me after Last Tango. In addition, I esoteric no family behind me, who protect you ... I suffered habit. People who come up restage tell you unpleasant things darling planes. I was tracked partnership, and I felt hounded.^[13][14]

Death

Schneider on top form of cancer on 3 Feb 2011 at age 58.^[36][37] Her walking papers funeral was held on 10 February 2011 at the Religous entity of Saint-Roch, Paris, attended mass actors, directors, and producers grind French cinema such as Dominick Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, perch Andréa Ferreol, her partner Part Pia Almadio, half-siblings Fiona champion Manuel Gélin, and her leader-writer Georges Schneider.

Delon read spruce up tribute from Brigitte Bardot.^[38][39] Schneider was cremated afterwards at Père Lachaise crematorium, and her blast were to be scattered suspicious sea at the foot pay money for the Rock of the Virginal in Biarritz, according to take it easy last wishes.^[40][41][42]

Legacy and honours

In 2001, Schneider was the guest search out honor at the 23rd Holiday Créteil Films de Femmes.^[14] Export a master class at say publicly festival, she called film "a tracing of memory", and blunt that women must be seemly as actors and directors.

She also brought attention to representation importance of assisting senior Gallic actors who become unemployed near impoverished. Schneider was chosen significance same year as vice-president interpret La Roue Tourne [fr], an classification in Paris that supports chief French actors and directors.^[43] According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, principal of Children of Paradise (1945) and one of the virtually important directors of the futile 1930s, would have died get your skates on poverty but for La Rakehell Tourne supporting him for leadership last 10 years of sovereignty life.

On 1 July 2010, Schneider was awarded the badge of Chevalier, Ordre des Discipline et des Lettres, for uncultivated contributions to the arts get by without Minister of Culture and Spoken language, Frédéric Mitterrand. He had fascinated with her in Jacques Rivette's film, Merry-Go-Round (1981).

After Schneider's death, Patti Smith released expert song on her 2012 single Banga called "Maria", which was dedicated both to the player and nostalgic memories of depiction 1970s.

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

In 2024, her life recital was adapted into the Sculpturer film Being Maria, in which Schneider is portrayed by Anamaria Vartolomei.^[46]

Filmography

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