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Actress Maria Schneider dies
Best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris, she passed away on Thursday morning after a long battle with disease at 58 years of age.
Her death is being reported by Italian media Republica, attributing the source to family members in Paris.
She was born in the French capital on 27 March, 1952.
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well, here is some more detailed info re Schneider: French actress Maria Schneider, who starred as Marlon Brando's lover in director Bernardo Bertolucci's sensational 1972 Last Tango In Paris, has died in that city. She was 58 and had suffered with cancer. The daughter of French actor Daniel Gelin and a Parisien bookshop owner, Schneider was l9 when she was cast in only her second screen role opposite Brando, who was then 48. Three years later, she appeared opposite Jack Nicholson in the existential drama The Passenger.
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More proof-reading needed! If Schneider was born in 1925, she would be 86, not 58. And the "disease", what disease? One hopes she didn't get during that (in)famous scene with Brando in "Last Tango in Paris".
