Maria Schneider (actress) cousin Vanessa Schneider published "Tu t'appelais Maria Schneider", a book about her. Maria Schneider (actress) Maria-Hélène Schneider (27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011), known as Maria Schneider, was a French actress. She starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's film "Last Tango in Paris" (1972). Schneider worked in more than 50 films and television productions between 1969 and 2008, including "Last Tango in Paris", Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" (1975), opposite Jack Nicholson, René Clément's "" (1975), Daniel Schmid's "Violanta" (1976), Nouchka van Brakel's "A Woman Like Eve" (1979), Daniel Duval's "Memoirs of a French Whore" (1979), Jacques Rivette's "Merry-Go-Round"
Romy Schneider Romy Schneider Romy Schneider (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a film actress born in Vienna who held German and French citizenship. She started her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian "Sissi" trilogy. Schneider moved to France where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Vienna into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother