PARIS — Maria Schneider, the French actress who was Marlon Brando’s young co-star in the steamy 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris,” has died, her talent agency said. She was 58.
Schneider (pictured) died in Paris yesterday following a long illness, a representative of the Act 1 agency said, but declined to give details.
Schneider was 19 when she starred opposite Marlon Brando in the racy “Last Tango.” She played a young Parisian who takes up with a middle-aged American businessman, played by the legendary star.
Throughout her career, Schneider appeared in more than two dozen films, most of them French. The last was “The Key,” which was released in 2007.