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She was originally cast to play the part of "Conchita" in Luis Buñuel's last film Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) but was fired during the first days of shooting and replaced with two actresses (Ángela Molina and Carole Bouquet).

Daughter of Daniel Gélin.

Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. [2001]

Raised by her mother, French model Marie Christine Schneider, near the French border with Germany.

Abandoned a film set and checked into a mental hospital in Rome (1975).

According to the documentary Il était une fois... Le dernier tango à Paris (2004) (TV), she hasn't talked to Bernardo Bertolucci since the shooting of Novecento (1976). When they met at a film festival years later, she said "I don't know that man".

Personal Quotes

"When I read Last Tango In Paris, I didn't see anything that worried me. I was 20. I didn't want to be a star, much less a scandalous actress - simply to be in cinema. Later, I realized I'd been completely manipulated by Bertolucci and Brando."

"[Bernardo] Bertolucci is more of a gangster than a movie director. He's one of my enemies."

(when asked why she backed out of "Caligula.") "I am an actress, not a prostitute!"

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