Maria Schneider

According to the documentary Il était une fois...: Le dernier tango à Paris (2004), she hasn't talked to Bernardo Bertolucci since the shooting of 1900 (1976). When they met at a film festival years later, she said "I don't know that man".

Festival Guest of Honor at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. [2001]

She was originally cast to play the part of "Conchita" in Luis Buñuel's last film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). She did not get along with the Spanish director and rejected his stereotypical ideas of women for the role he had in mind. After a few days of shooting she was replaced by actresses (Ángela Molina and Carole Bouquet).

In early 1976, she abandoned the film set of Caligula and was replaced by Teresa Ann Savoy. Her and Brando remained friends until his death.

Abandoned a film set and became a voluntary patient at mental hospital in Rome (1975) in order to be her with her girlfriend photographer Joan Townsend. This was at a time before recognition of visiting rights in same sex relationships by hospitals and institutions.

Maria Schneider was a French actress. At age 19 she became famous for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris (1972), and The Passenger (1975). As a teenager, she adored films, going to the cinema up to four times a week. She left home at 15 after an argument with her mother and went to Paris, where she made her stage acting debut that same year.

Her film debut was an uncredited role in The Christmas Tree (1969). In Last Tango in Paris she performed several nude scenes. After the film release she decided never to work nude again.