Maria Schneider (actress) 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" (1981), Predrag Golubović's "Peacetime in Paris" (1981), Enki Bilal's "Bunker Palace Hôtel"
Maria Smolnikova in 2011. She works in the theater "School of Dramatic Art" led by Dmitry Krymov. Smolnikova became famous thanks to a lead role in the film by Fyodor Bondarchuk ""Stalingrad"" (2013). Maria Smolnikova Maria Alexandrovna Smolnikova (; born 17 December 1987) is a Russian actress, best known for her role in the film "Stalingrad" (2013). Maria Smolnikova was born in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia). She studied at the experimental school in Yekaterinburg. As a child, she acted in the Youth Theatre in Nizhny Novgorod, hoping to enter the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).