RIP Maria Schneider (1952–2011)

French actress French actress Maria Schneider, who played Marlon Brando’s lover in Bernardo Bertolucci's infamous pic Last Tango in Paris, has died in Paris after a long illness reports  She was just 58 years old.

The Daughter of late French actor Daniel Gélin and model Marie-Christine Schneider, she became internationally famous at just 20 years old when she starred alongside then 48-year-old Brando in 1972 The film is about a French girl who meets an older American man (Brando) for casual sex in a Paris apartment.

The film was banned in many countries for being too graphic, and director Bertolucci  told ANSA that he wished he could have apologised to Schneider for putting her through those scenes.

Other roles include Franco Zeffirelli’s 1992 adaptation of "Jane Eyre", Jacques Rivette's "Merry-Go-Round," Dominique Goult's "Haine," Nouchka van Brakel's " A Woman Like Eve ," Cyril Collard's "Savage Nights ", Josiane Balasko’s "Cliente", and Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" alongside Jack Nicholson.

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