Maria Schneider

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maria Schneider
Occupation	Movie Actress
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1952(1952-03-27)
Age	72
Birthplace	France
Country	France
Horoscope	Aries

Maria Schneider Biography

Maria Schneider is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on March 27, 1952 in France, France. French actress who played opposite Marlon Brando as Jeanne in the 1972 picture Last Tango in Paris. She was also well known for her role in The Passenger.

Warren Beatty helped get her career started by introducing her to the William Morris Agency.

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

As a teenager, she loved 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. She eked out a living as a film extra and a model. While working on a film set, she met Brigitte Bardot, who having worked with her father on several productions (a father who refused to help his daughter), was “horrified” that the young actress was homeless, and offered her a room in her house. Through Bardot, Schneider met people in the film business, including Warren Beatty, who was greatly impressed by Schneider, and introduced her to the William Morris Agency. She was 18 when she had her first break in 1970, appearing in Madly, starring Alain Delon. This was followed by relatively substantial roles in films such as Roger Vadim’s Hellé (1972); The Old Maid (La Vieille Fille) (1972) with Philippe Noiret; Dear Parents (Cari genitori) (1973) opposite Florinda Bolkan and Catherine Spaak; and Dance of Love (1973), based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler. (The latter film is also known as Merry-Go-Round, which is distinct from Schneider’s 1981 film of the same name directed by Jacques Rivette.)

She was in a relationship with Maria Pia Almadio.

Maria Schneider Net Worth

Maria Schneider is one of the richest Movie Actress from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maria Schneider 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After leaving home at the age of 15, she worked as a film extra and model before finding some connections within the film industry and eventually getting her big break by appearing in the 1970 film Madly.

She played the part of Bertha in Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Jane Eyre.

Maria-Hélène Schneider (27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011), known as Maria Schneider, was a French actress. In 1972 at the age of nineteen she starred opposite Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris, but traumatized by a rape scene and hounded by unsavoury publicity she subsequently declined to appear nude in roles for even the most prestigious directors. Although Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger showcased her abilities, a reputation for walking out of films mid-production resulted in her becoming persona non grata in the industry. An incautious attitude to drugs and their toll on her mental health made what should have been banner years for Schneider increasingly chaotic. However, she re-established stability in her personal and professional life in the early 1980s, and became an advocate for equality and improving the conditions actresses worked under. She continued acting in film and TV until a few years before she died in 2011 after a long illness.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Maria Schneider Dating?

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During the ’70s, Schneider traveled (including to the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation) and lived in various parts of Europe, including Venice, Paris, and London. After The Passenger and Wanted: Babysitter, Schneider settled in Los Angeles for a year, looking around for film opportunities and being offered roles in Hollywood movies such as Black Sunday (1977) as a Palestinian guerilla terrorist, which she turned down based on what she perceived to be poor quality material. She signed up with renowned talent agent and producer Paul Kohner, and several movies were considered, but ultimately little came of this. Work became difficult for her to find, as she had become uninsurable.

Facts & Trivia

Maria Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Maria Schneider celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.

The 1980s were a much quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally. Following issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocaine, LSD, and heroin) and a suicide attempt in the ’70s (in the looming shadow of Last Tango in Paris, which friend and one-time girlfriend of Marlon Brando, Esther Anderson, said “ruined [Maria’s] life”), Schneider once and for all overcame these problems by the early ’80s – which she accredited to her “angel”, which may have been life-partner Maria Pia Almadio (or, according to some sources, Crapanzano). The beginning of the decade saw the actress appearing in a campy Belgian vampire comedy with Louise Fletcher, Mama Dracula (1980), which received universally negative reviews from critics. The same year, she performed alongside Klaus Kinski in the French thriller Hate (Haine).

What happened to Maria Schneider?

Death. Schneider died of breast cancer on 3 February 2011 at age 58.

What instrument does Maria Schneider play?

Maria Schneider
Born| November 27, 1960 Windom, Minnesota, U.S.
Genres| Jazz, big band, avant-garde, contemporary classical
Occupation(s)| Composer, bandleader, musician
Instruments| Piano

Who started in Last Tango in Paris?

Last Tango in Paris
Screenplay by| Bernardo Bertolucci Franco Arcalli French dialogue: Agnès Varda
Story by| Bernardo Bertolucci
Produced by| Alberto Grimaldi
Starring| Marlon Brando Maria Schneider Maria Michi Giovanna Galletti Jean- Pierre Léaud Massimo Girotti

How does Last Tango in Paris end?

Later he returns, tells that he loves her and asks her name. She pulls a gun from a drawer, tells him her name and then shoots him. As the film ends, she is planning her testimony as a victim of attempted rape by a stranger.

What was the butter scene in Last Tango in Paris?

On release, Last Tango In Paris caused a stir for a scene in which Paul (Marlon Brando) rapes Jeanne Maria Schneider using butter as an improvised lubricant. Bertolucci always maintained that the scene had been pre-arranged and that Schneider had given her consent.