Schneider performed several nude scenes in Last Tango in Paris, which was controversial at the time. Warren Beatty introduced her to the William Morris agency, and her first break came in 1970, when she appeared in Madly, starring Alain Delon and directed by Roger Kahane. Through Bardot, Maria also met important figures in the film business. While working as an extra she met Brigitte Bardot, who knew her father and offered Maria a room in her house. where she scratched out a living as a film extra and a model. Schneider made stage acting debut at age 15. Īs a teenager she adored films, going to the cinema up to four times a week, and she left home at 15 after an argument with her mother. She met her father only three times and took her mother's last name and was raised by her mother near the French border with Germany. Schneider was born Marie Christine Gélin, the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris.
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