Actor who stripped down: Maria Schneider Why they're fully nude: A relationship based on anonymous sex is bound to have some nudity. A funny thing happened in Hollywood in the late s and early s: The director became king. Feb 04, · Maria Schneider, the French actress whose sex scenes with Marlon Brando in “Last Tango in Paris” set a new standard for explicitness on screen, died on Thursday in Paris. French actress Maria Schneider, most famous for her role as Marlon Brando's lover in Last Tango in Paris, has died aged 58, French media outlets have reported.