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. In the film She did numerous full-frontal scenes which were quite controversal for the time. Born as Marie Christine Gélin, 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 1974, Schneider came out as bisexual.[1][2] 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.[3] Schneider did not work in film for several years, though she eventually resumed her career, appearing in over 30, mostly European films.
Filmography
- Les Femmes (1969)
- La Vieille fille (1971)
- Hellé (1971)
- Cari genitori (Dear Parents, 1972)
- Last Tango in Paris (1972)
- Reigen (Dance of Love, 1973)
- Jeune fille libre le soir (The Babysitter, 1975)
- Professione: reporter (The Passenger, 1975)
- Violanta (1977)
- Io sono mia (I Belong to Me, 1978)
- Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (Just a Gigolo, 1979)
- Haine (Hate, 1979)
- La Dérobade (Memoirs of a French Whore, 1979)
- Vrouw als Eva, Een (A Woman Called Eva, 1979)
- Weiße Reise (1980)
- Mamma Dracula (1980)
- Sezona mira u Parizu (1981)
- Cercasi Gesù (1982)
- Balles perdues (Stray Bullets, 1982)
- Merry-Go-Round (1983)
- Résidence surveillée (1987)
- Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989)
- Écrans de sable (Sand Screens, 1992)
- Au pays des Juliets (In the Country of Juliets, 1992)
- Savage Nights (Les Nuits fauves, 1992)
- Jane Eyre (1996)
- Something to Believe In (1998)
- Les Acteurs (2000)
References
- ^ Hadleigh, Boze (2001), The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films, Citadel Press, p. 81, ISBN 0806521996
- ^ Abrams, Richard M. (2006), America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941-2001, Cambridge University Press, p. 165-6, ISBN 0521862469
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Interview with Maria Schneider", Chicago Sun-Times, 1975-09-14. Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
