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"
César Award for Best Actress nomination for "Full Moon in Paris" in 1985. Romy Schneider is the only actress to have been presented a posthumous Honorary César, in 2008. Actor Alain Delon presented the César, as the date also corresponded to the forty years of the iconic film "La Piscine" in which they starred together. During the standing ovation, he turned towards a giant portrait of the actress and declared in German that she was the love of his life. As the César Awards are centered on the French Cinema, the majority of recipients are French and performed in French language. The only non-French winner