Birth Name: Maria-Hélène Schneider
Date of Birth: 27 March, 1952
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Date of Death: 3 February, 2011
Place of Death: Paris, France
Ethnicity:
*father – French, Breton
*mother – German and/or Romanian
Maria Schneider was a French actress. She is particularly known for starring in the film Last Tango in Paris. Her roles also included the films The Love Mates, The Old Maid, Hellé, Dear Parents, The Passenger, Wanted: Babysitter, Violanta (1977), A Woman Like Eve, Memoirs of a French Whore, Haine, Mama Dracula, Peacetime in Paris, Merry-Go-Round (1981), Bunker Palace Hôtel, The Conviction, Sand Screens, In the Country of Juliets, Savage Nights, Jane Eyre (1996), Something to Believe In, Actors (2000), The Repentant (2002), The Key (2007), and A French Gigolo.
Maria was the daughter of Marie-Christine Schneider, a model and runner of a bookshop, and actor Daniel Gélin (Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin). Her father was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. Her mother was said to have been from Romania, though may have been of part ethnic German descent.
Her paternal half-siblings were actor and film producer Xavier Gélin, and actors Manuel Gélin and Fiona Gélin; Xavier’s mother was Maria’s father’s first wife, actress and film producer Danièle Delorme, to whom he was married during Maria’s birth. Maria’s maternal uncle was writer, musicologist, énarque, senior official, and psychoanalyst Michel Schneider. She was a first cousin of journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider, who was Michel’s daughter.
Maria was a partner of Maria Pia Almadio, until her own death.
Maria’s paternal grandfather was Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin (the son of Joseph Julien Gelin and Marie Pauline Chaigneau). Alfred was born in Vouhé, Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Joseph was born in Saint-Pardoux, Deux-Sèvres, the son of François Gelin and Marie Louise Foucher. Marie Pauline was born in Vouhé/La Baraudière, Deux-Sèvres.
Maria’s paternal grandmother was Yvonne Le Méner (the daughter of Jean François Le Mener and Marie Noëlle Augustine Desbordes). Yvonne was born in Rostrenen, Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany. Jean was born in Rostrenen, the son of Yves Marie Le Mener and Marie Marguerite Le Guet. Maria’s great-grandmother Marie Noëlle was born in Plouguernével, Côtes-d’Armor, the daughter of Jean Louis Desbordes and Marie Suzanne Raoult.
Sources: Genealogies of Maria Schneider (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
https://gw.geneanet.org
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