Mainstream actresses who did explicit nudity and/or explicit sex scenes on screen

(Denmark)

• Explicit sex in "Gift" (1966)

She was 20 at the time of filming.

There had to be a first time. It came from Scandinavia. Sisse Reingaard originally wanted to be a ceramicist but she started acting in Stig Lommer revues in the theater in the mid-1960s.

She appeared in 28 films between 1965 and 1980 and in television series. Among the films in which she played lead roles, the most well-knowns are "Stine og drengene" also known as "Stine and the boys" (1969), a movie about hectic relationships between teenagers, and "Pigen fra Egborg" also known as "The Egborg Girl" (1969), a light-hearted comedy in which she plays the beautiful and candid daughter of a caretaker. In 1970, she played in "Skal vi leke gjemsel?" also known as "Let's Play Hide and Seek", a comedy depicting holidays at a Norwegian summer boarding house involving nude sunbathing and skinny dipping.

She played a young aspiring actress in a theatre company in "Nu går den på Dagmar" also known as "Dagmar Is Where It's at" (1972), based on a play by Leif Petersen, a role involving full frontal nudity. In 1980, she appeared in an episode of "Matador", the most successful TV series in Denmark ever. The first run was viewed by at least half the population. The first rerun in 1985 was an even bigger success, the final episode recorded an estimated audience of more than two thirds of the Danish population. In Danish, the title "Matador" refers to an influential businessman. It is also the Danish name of the board game "Monopoly".

Sisse Reingaard was married to cinematographer Claus Loof. Her sister Elsebeth Reingaard is a model and actress .

(Sweden)

• Explicit sex in "Jag är nyfiken - En film i gult" also know as "I Am Curious (Yellow)" (1967)

She was 23 at the time of filming.

Lena Nyman was a child actress. She had her first roles in 1955 at age 11. Her career breakthrough came in 1967 with "I Am Curious (Yellow)" and its sequel "I Am Curious (Blue)" the following year. She won the award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in "I Am Curious (Yellow)" at the 1967/1968 Guldbagge Award, the official award ceremony for the Swedish film industry.

"I Am Curious (Yellow)" is acknowledged to be the first mainstream film to openly show a male full frontal. American obscenity laws were tested by this Swedish film. After the 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court that the film was not obscene because of its educational context, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a number of films where a doctor dressed in a white coat would give an introduction to the graphic content that followed, like the Swedish movie-slash-documentary "Ur kärlekens språk" also known as "Language of Love" (1969).

Lena Nyman was also a stage actress. She participated in many of the films and stage productions of Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" (1978).

In 2004, Nyman received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus, a Swedish royal distinction awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture.

(Greece)

• Explicit nudity in "To prosopo tis Medousas" also known as "Vortex, The Face of Medusa" (1967)

Hara Angelousi is a Greek actress. She made her screen debut in 1966 in Dimitris Kollatos' drama "O thanatos tou Alexandrou" also known as "The Death of Alexandros".

In what was only her second acting experience, she played the lead role in Nikos Koundouros' feature film "Vortex, The Face of Medusa" (1967), a Greek-British drama featuring a beautiful man-eating woman on a remote Greek island, eating stranded men. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.

She was also chosen to play the lead female role by Orestis Laskos in the romantic drama "Dafnis kai Hloi: Oi mikroi erastai" also known as "Daphnis and Chloe: The Young Lovers" (1969).

(USA)

• Explicit nudity in "Lonesome Cowboys" (1968)
• Explicit sex in "Blue Movie" (1969)

She was respectively 30 and 31 at the time of filming.

Viva Auder's parents were strict catholic devots. She considered becoming a nun. Her father was a prosperous attorney. She started as a supermodel and painter before becoming an actress.

Viva approached Andy Warhol about being in one of his films, on the suggestion of her friend, actress Abigail Rosen McGrath. Warhol agreed but only on the condition that Viva takes off her blouse for the role. Viva responded by adhering bandaids to her breasts and visiting Warhol at The Factory, Andy Warhol's studio in New York City and the hip hangout spot for artists, musicians and celebrities alike. She appeared in several of Warhol's films and was a frequent guest at the Factory.

"Lonesome Cowboys" won Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival in November 1968. It was originally conceived as a western version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. By far, Viva's most controversial role was in "Blue Movie" in 1969, a film that helped inaugurate the "porno chic" phenomenon in modern American culture. The film consists of improvised dialogue between Viva and Louis Waldon about a multitude of topics, conversations interrupted by the main event of the film, the scene in which Viva and Waldon perform unsimulated intercourse in front of the camera. Andy Warhol said, "I'd always wanted to do a movie that was pure fucking, nothing else". The New York Criminal Court ruled that "Blue Movie" was obscene. It was seized by the police and the staff of the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre were arrested for possession of obscene materials.

After she began making films for other directors she also began writing. Her first book, "Superstar", was an insider's look at the Factory scene, a partly fictional autobiographical account of her time there. She also wrote for various publications, including The Village Voice and New York Woman. With former husband Michel Auder, Viva made and kept film diaries which included the birth of her first daughter. She was briefly engaged to the actor Anthony Herrera. They had a daughter, actress Gaby Hoffmann.

(Mexico)

• Explicit nudity in "La horripilante bestia humana" also know as "Night of the Bloody Apes" (1969).

She was 20 at the time of filming.

Gina Morett is a Mexican film, theater and television actress and singer. In the 1960s she launched herself as a singer with classics such as "Mi Novio Se Quiere Casar" and "Enamorada de Ti".

Gina Morret's had her first role and nude scene in horror flick "Night of the Bloody Apes" (1969). Its video cover featured a bloody surgeon's hands holding a scalpel with the caption "Warning: this film contains scenes of extreme and explicit violence." It contains the footage of an actual human heart transplant operation. When it was released in the United States, the distributor added more scenes of gore. It is to be noted that it was lead actress Norma Lazareno's first nude scenes and the only time she shows her breasts onscreen. She said years later that she agreed to film the nudity in order to be cast in a major role. She was nervous enough when it came time to strip, but to make matters worse, suddenly there were a lot more male crew on set than normal watching her. She ended up spending half a day naked on set surrounded by men. The director also talked her into filming both scenes with full frontal nudity without using a towel to cover herself so her pubic hair was showing. She didn't want to, but agreed anyway because she felt she had no choice. Later she learned from someone else that there was no way they would use the full frontal shots because censors wouldn't allow it. That meant the director probably just wanted to see her walking around stark naked for his own enjoyment. She always worried that the footage would show up one day but it never did. Gina Morett's (accidental) nudity remained however.

Gina Morett is well remembered for her character "Gina" in the classic movie "My second mother" (1989). She won the award for Best Actress in a Minor Role for her performance in "Ángel de fuego" (1992) at the 1993 Ariel Award, the award ceremony for the Mexican film industry. She won the award for Best Actress in a Minor Role for her performance in "Por la libre" (2000) at the 2001 Ariel Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Noticias lejanas" (2005) at the 2006 Ariel Award.

(Austria)

• Explicit sex in "Der heiße Tod" also know as "99 Women" (1969)

She was 24 at the time of filming.

Maria Rohm was an Austrian actress and producer. She was born in Vienna. She began her career as a child actress. She was only 4-years old when she held her first role on the stage of the famous Viennese Burgtheatre. She pursued her theatrical work until the age of 18 when she auditioned for British film producer, Harry Alan Towers, whom she would later marry. Rohm remained married to Towers from 1964 until his death in 2009. She received a classical training before moving to cinema.

She became famous for appearing in a number of films directed by Jesús Franco in the late 60's. She is often cast to play the role of the victim in his movies, typically violent and erotically charged, including "99 Women" (1969), which was censored on release, "Die sieben Männer der Sumuru" also known as "The Girl from Rio" (1969), a sequel to "The Million Eyes of Sumuru" (1967), also censored on release, "Paroxismus" also known as "Venus in Furs" (1969) starring James Darren who fell in love with co-star Maria Rohm during the production, "Il Trono di Fuoco" also known as "The Bloody Judge" (1970) opposite Christopher Lee, and "Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" also known as "Count Dracula" with Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski and Soledad Miranda. This is the first major role for Soledad Miranda in a Jesus Franco film. This is one of four films released in 1970 in which Christopher Lee played Count Dracula. Christopher Lee was reportedly tired of playing Count Dracula, and was convinced to join the cast only after being promised that this movie would be a faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. This movie, however, ultimately made numerous significant changes to the story. Christopher Lee rates his performance in the film, as the best he gave as Dracula. On a documentary included on the DVD, director Jesús Franco claims that Klaus Kinski ate real flies instead of fake ones.

In the mid-70's, Maria Rohm retired from acting and eventually became a full-time producer.

Rohm died in Toronto in June 2018 at the age of 72. She had been hospitalized for paralysis in the legs after collapsing to the ground. The tests led to the discovery of acute leukemia and a tumor pressing against her spine, which caused the paralysis, although Rohm remained convinced that she was suffering from sciatica. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died a few days after entering the hospital.

(USA)

• Explicit nudity in "Beatrice Cenci" also known as "The Conspiracy of Torture" (1969)
• Explicit sex in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)

She was respectively 21 and 27 at the time of filming.

Adrienne Larussa is an American actress. She was born in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, where a childhood friend was actor Henry Winkler. She graduated from Cold Spring Harbor High School on Long Island.

She made her film debut in Italy at age 19 with a supporting role in Luciano Salce's comedy "La Pecora Nera" also known as "The Black Sheep" (1968), a political satire about the corruption in the Italian government, opposite Vittorio Gassman and Lisa Gastoni. Immediately, her intensity and her unparalleled beauty made an impact in the Italian cinema industry. She obtained her first lead role the following year in Rossano Brazzi's giallo thriller "Salvare La Faccia" also known as "Psychout for Murder" (1969), alongside Rossano Brazzi, Paola Pitagora and Nino Castelnuovo.

That same year, Adrienne was chosen by Lucio Fulci to star in "Beatrice Cenci", opposite Tomas Milian, a movie based on a real story which remains, to this day, one of the most shameful scandals in Italy's History. The movie was censored on release. Not so much for the graphic nude scenes as for the open criticism of the Catholic Church and the Roman nobility. Director Lucio Fulci even received death threats after the release of the movie. An unapologetic Fulci considers this movie to be his best film.

Adrienne Larussa took a break from acting. It coincided with her return on the American continent. She reappeared on screen four years later in Larry Kent's romantic comedy "Keep It in the Family" (1973), opposite John Gavin and Patricia Gage. She started doing television work to make a name for herself in Hollywood. She appeared in an episode of the television series "The Streets of San Francisco" starring Karl Malden, Michael Douglas and Richard Hatch, in 1974, in an episode of the television series "The Manhunter", starring Ken Howard, the same year, and in an episode of the television series "McCloud", starring Dennis Weaver, in 1975.

The following year, Adrienne Larussa was cast by British director Nicolas Roeg to play in the sci-fi drama "The Man Who Fell to Earth", based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name. It starred David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn. It is considered an important work of science fiction and one of the best films in Roeg's career. A kind of an oddball, this movie retains a cult following for its use of surreal imagery and Bowie's first starring film role. Roeg originally considered casting author Michael Crichton and actor Peter O'Toole for the lead role. Director Nicolas Roeg cast David Bowie after seeing Bowie in the 1975 documentary "Cracked Actor". David Bowie said in the 12th May 1983 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine: "I'm so pleased I made that movie. I just threw my real self into that movie as I was at that time. It was a pretty natural performance. A good exhibition of somebody literally falling apart in front of you. I was totally insecure with about 10 grams of cocaine a day in me. I was stoned out of my mind from beginning to end". David Bowie was unable to work on the movie for two days because he had drunk some "bad milk", allegedly. Bowie's co-star Candy Clark was romantically involved with director Nicolas Roeg at the time. She played Bowie's role in one scene while he was ill and unavailable to work, wearing a large black hat strategically pulled low to hide her face. Candy Clark remembered things differently: "David vowed to Nic, 'No drug use'," said Clark and he was a man of his word, "clear as a bell, focused, friendly and professional and leading the team. You can see it clearly because of Tony Richmond's brilliant cinematography. Look at David! His skin is luminescent. He's gorgeous, angelic, heavenly. He was absolutely perfect as the man from another planet." Between takes and when not filming, David Bowie composed songs, sketched drawings, wrote short stories, planned an autobiography to be titled "The Return of the Thin White Duke", filmed on a 16mm newsreel camera that director Nicolas Roeg had given him, and read books, including a biography of silent film comedian Buster Keaton. This is the only film that Bowie would go out of his way to promote. A highly edited version was broadcast for its first UK TV screening on BBC2 in 1981, due to the sex scenes. The British Board of Film Censors passed the film uncut for adult UK audiences with an X rating. Asked about her sex scene, Candy Clark said, "I had never done a nude scene before, I'd never done any nude modeling. I had never even let a boyfriend take a nude picture of me. And yet here I was nude, with David Bowie, in front of the cameras and a lot of strange men. I think David was as nervous as I was. Anyway, we sort of spontaneously decided to get it all over with as quickly as possible. We kind of lunged at each other and started these mad, frantic hugs and kisses. Suddenly the director called out. 'Hey. this isn't a wrestling match! Let's calm down and take it slowly.'"

Adrienne Larussa, however, is probably best known for her role in "Days of Our Lives", which she played for 265 episodes from 1975 till 1977. She had a supporting role in the iconic miniseries "Centennial" in 1978. She appeared in an episode of "Charlie's Angels" in 1979 and in six episode of the long-running series "General Hospital" in 1983.

Adrienne Larussa's marriage to actor and martial artist Steven Seagal in 1984 was annulled that same year.

• Explicit nudity in "Joe" (1970).

Her only acting role in this Oscar nominated thriller. Also Susan Sarandon's film debut and her first full frontal nude scene. According to production manager William Sachs, up-and-comer Susan Sarandon only landed her role because her nose was like Dennis Patrick's who played her father in the film.

• Explicit nudity in "Stille dage i Clichy" also know as "Quiet Days in Clichy" (1970)

She was 24 at the time of filming.

"Quiet Days in Clichy" was seized by the US authorities as pornography. The uncut version was released to DVD in 2004.

(Hungary)

• Explicit sex in "Nana" also know as "Take Me, Love Me" (1970)

She was 27 at the time of filming.

Anna Gaël was a Hungarian actress and war correspondent born in Budapest. She also had French and British nationalities. She played in Hungarian, German, Italian and French.

Her father was a mathematician and her mother was a poet. She moved to France as a child and began acting when she was fifteen. She made her film debut at the age of 18 in Eriprando Visconti's drama "Una Storia Milanese" (1962), starring Danièle Gaubert, Enrique Thibaut and Romolo Valli.

In 1966, director Jean Leduc chose her for the female lead role in "Via Macau", opposite Roger Hanin and Françoise Prévost. The following year, she played in the crime drama "Hell Is Empty" (1967), with Anthony Steel, Shirley Anne Field, James Robertson Justice, Isa Miranda, Jess Conrad, Martine Carol and Catherine Schell. Production was briefly halted due to Martine Carol's illness. Although filmed in 1963, by the time it was released four years later, leading lady Martine Carol had died.

Anna Gaël then played in Michel Deville's romantic comedy "Benjamin ou Les Mémoires d'un Puceau" also known as "Benjamin, The Diary of an Innocent Young Boy" (1968), alongside Michèle Morgan, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Clémenti and Catherine Rouvel. That same year, Anna Gaël starred in Radley Metzger's coming-of-age movie "Therese and Isabelle" (1968), alongside Essy Persson and Barbara Laage.

In 1969, she played in John Guillermin's war movie "The Bridge at Remagen", starring George Segal, Robert Vaughn, and Ben Gazzara. Filming in Czechoslovakia was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of August 1968. Cast and crew were taken to safety in a convoy of 28 taxis, except for Robert Logan, who stayed behind with film gear in order to capture the invasion on film and photo. One of the first films to be shot behind the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia was seen by Russia as becoming too liberal in its values, and in an attempt to justify the forthcoming invasion by the USSR, Soviet agents spread the rumor that the American soldiers in the film were real. Most of them, in fact, were played by Czech students. That same year, Anna Gaël starred in Michael Cort's sci-fi exploitation movie "Zeta One" (1969), co-starring James Robertson Justice, Brigitte Skay, Charles Hawtrey, Yutte Stensgaard, Robin Hawdon and Dawn Addams. It was released in the US as "The Love Factor" in 1974. The film was not a commercial success. According to a recent book, James Robertson Justice was very ashamed to be working on a film of this sort. It features Yutte Stensgaard's first nude scenes.

The following year, Anna Gaël starred in Mac Ahlberg's X-rated romantic drama "Nana" (1970), an adaptation of Emile Zola's novel of the same name, telling the story of a promiscuous woman living a lavish lifestyle. A year before, she got married to Alexander Thynn, Viscount Weymouth. In 1971, she appeared in an episode of the iconic television series "The Persuaders!" starring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. She then starred in Jean-Paul Sassy's "L'obsédée sexuelle (Brutalités amoureuses)" (1972), alongside Blair Brown in her film debut.

In 1973, she starred in "Manalive", a mystery movie directed by Denise Geilfus and Frédéric Geilfus. She played in Edouard Molinaro's horror comedy "Dracula Père et Fils" also known as " Dracula and Son" (1976), alongside Christopher Lee, Catherine Breillat, Gérard Jugnot and Marie-Hélène Breillat. In 1978, she played in Michel Lang's comedy "L'Hôtel de la Plage" also known as "Holiday Hotel", starring Sophie Barjac, Daniel Ceccaldi, Myriam Boyer, Guy Marchand and Anne Parillaud. That same year, she played in Tom Clegg's crime movie "Sweeney 2", starring John Thaw, Dennis Waterman and Denholm Elliott, the second opus of a theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Dennis Waterman once commented on the violence in "The Sweeney" (1974) while doing publicity for this movie by saying: "It's certainly no more violent than the real Flying Squad. The stories that we hear from policemen that we know are terrifying. We don't introduce gratuitous violence, but it is, in real-life, a violent job, and to pretend otherwise would be ridiculous." Anna Gaël retired from acting in 1981 and became a war correspondent.

She met Alexander Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, in Paris in 1959. She later became the Viscount's mistress while she was married to French film director Gilbert Pineau. In 1969, she and the Viscount married. Later that year, she gave birth to a daughter. In 1974, she gave birth to their second child, a son. In 1992, she became a Marchioness when her husband succeeded his father as the Marquess of Bath. In 2013, her son married Emma McQuiston, the daughter of Nigerian businessman Oladipo Jadesimi. She reportedly disapproved of her son's marriage due to her daughter-in-law's African ancestry. She did not attend the wedding. Anna Gaël died in Paris on the 17th September 2022, at the age of 78, ten days before her 79th birthday.

(Italy)

• Explicit sex in "Il Decameron" also know as "The Decameron" (1971).

It was Elisabetta Genovese's career debut. This movie was the first part of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life". It was followed by "The Canterbury Tales" in 1972 and "Arabian Nights" in 1974. Due to the explicit nature of these movies, they were censored and banned in many countries. She played in all three.

(Italy)

• Explicit sex in "La Bestia uccide a sangue freddo" also know as "Cold Blooded Beast" (1971)

She was 33 at the time of filming.

Rosalba Neri was one of the contestants of Miss Italia 1956. Eventually pursuing an acting career, she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Center for Experimental Cinematography) in Rome, graduating in 1959.

She made her film debut in 1958 in the comedy "Mogli pericolose". Her second film role was in Roberto Rossellini's prize-winning drama "Era notte a Roma" (1960). Because of her dark, sultry beauty, Rosalba was often a natural fit to play certain legendary characters. That same year, she appeared in two sword and sandal films set in the Ancient world; "Il sepolcro dei re" also known as "Cleopatra's Daughter" (1960) and Raoul Walsh's biblical movie "Esther and the King" (1960), starring Joan Collins. This movie was made in Italy because of a writers' strike in Hollywood. She was Ramses' intended bride in the Hercules adventure "Il Leone di Tebe" also known as "The Lion of Thebes" (1964). She also played Delilah, the Biblical beauty who was the downfall of the Old Testament hero, Samson, in "I Grandi Condottieri" also known as "The Great Leaders" (1965).

Neri had quite a few roles in spy films, often playing a less than saintly character, like in "Superseven chiama Cairo" also known as "SuperSeven Calling Cairo" (1965), in "Due mafiosi contro Goldginger" also known as "The Amazing Doctor G" (1965) and in "Password: Uccidete agente Gordon" also known as "Password: Kill Agent Gordon" (1966). In 1967, she played her first part for Spanish director Jess Franco in "Lucky, el intrépido" also known as "Lucky, the Inscrutable", a spy film parody done in comic book style. The following year, she appeared in"Niente rose per OSS 117" also known as "OSS 117 Murder for Sale" (1968), starring John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Robert Hossein and George Eastman.

She then followed the trends of European cinema by appearing in several Spaghetti Westerns such as "Johnny Yuma" (1966), "Arizona Colt" (1966), "Long Days of Hate" (1968), "A Long Ride from Hell" (1968), "The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine" (1969), "Arizona Colt Returns" (1971), "Drummer of Vengeance" (1971) and "Man Called Invincible" (1973).

Rosalba Neri was also in great demand for erotic giallo thrillers, horror and sexploitation movies. She played in "Der heiße Tod" also known as "99 Women" (1969), Jess Franco's first women in prison film, also starring Maria Rohm. The same year, she played in x-rated "Top Sensation" (1969), opposite giallo films star Edwige Fenech. Neri's best-known films are from the horror-giallo genre. Credited as Sara Bay, she played Tania Frankenstein, daughter of the monster's creator, in "La figlia di Frankenstein" also known as "Lady Frankenstein" (1971). Just prior to the start of filming, a letter of credit from a film company was not accepted by the Italian banks. The financiers who gave the last-minute money needed to make the film chose Rosalba Neri as the lead role. She had explicit nude scenes in "La Bestia uccide a sangue freddo" also known as "Cold Blooded Beast" (1971). The movie was censored. There is a rumour that a body double may have been used for her most masturbation sequence. In 1972, she engages in kinky sex games with Barbara Bouchet in "Alla ricerca del piacere" also known as "Amuck!". Edwige Fenech was originally cast as Eleanora, but dropped out of the role upon discovering that she was pregnant with her son and the role went to Rosalba Neri. Bouchet and Neri teamed up again in 1972 in "Casa d'appuntamento" also known as "The French Sex Murders", another movie combining sex with horror, also starring Anita Ekberg.

1972 was probably her most prolific year as she also played the lead role in the erotic horror flick "L'amante del demonio" also known as "Lucifera: Demonlover". Rosalba Neri was really scared shooting this horror movie mixing satanic horror, vampirism, sex and torture. The following year, she starred as Lady Dracula, a vampire who uses Dracula's ring to lure young virgins to her home so she can murder them and bathe in their blood in "Il plenilunio delle vergini" also known as "The Devil's Wedding Night" (1973). She played in several more movies throughout the 70's before retiring in 1976.

(United Kingdom)

• Explicit Nudity in "Walkabout" (1971). The movie was shot in 1969

She was 16 at the time of filming.

Jenny Agutter's father was an officer in the British Army. She began her career as a child actress at the age of 12 in an adventure movie called "East of Sudan" (1964). As a child, she lived in Singapore, Cyprus and Kuala Lumpur. She was discovered at Elmhurst Ballet School, a boarding school she attended from ages eight to sixteen, when a casting agent was looking for a young English-speaking girl for a film. She did not get that part, but he recommended her to the producers of "East of Sudan".

In 1968, she appeared in "Star!", a musical biography starring Julie Andrews and Richard Crenna. She was 16 when she starred in the critically acclaimed film "Walkabout". It was released in 1971 and nominated at the 1972 Cannes Festival but filming took place in 1969. Jenny Agutter's first nude scene. She said in an interview that when the director first asked her to do the full nude swimming scene, she was reluctant because she was "a very reserved 16-year old girl." But after he explained his reasons for it and that it was a very important part of the story, she agreed to do it because she trusted him. As many as possible of the crew were sent away. She was extremely nervous and felt uncomfortable, but she just went for it, took all her clothes off and kept swimming while they filmed her from several angles. When shooting was done the crew returned, stripped naked, and went for a swim while Agutter watched. When she saw the final film, she agreed it was the right thing to do because it depicted the innocence of her character, however she said that she was shocked when she realized that the Director had shot that scene with such explicitness.

That same year, she won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama for her performance in "The Snow Goose" (1971) at the 1972 Primetime Emmy Awards. She relocated to the United States in 1974 to pursue a Hollywood career and subsequently appeared in Oscar nominated "Logan's Run" (1976), also starring Farrah Fawcett, Michael York and Peter Ustinov, in "Amy" (1981), in John Landis' horror comedy "An American Werewolf in London" (1981), and in "Child's Play 2" (1990), the horror movie famously featuring the Chucky doll. She continued appearing in high-profile British productions and she won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Equus" (1977) at the 1978 BAFTA Awards. The producers were very glad when the movie received an R rating. They were worried the extensive full frontal nudity would qualify it for an X rating.

At a 1989 arts festival in Bath, Agutter met Johan Tham, a Swedish hotel director whom she married in 1990. They had a son that same year. She returned to Britain in the early 1990s to pursue family life. Her film work in recent years includes the Marvel blockbusters "The Avengers" (2012) and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014).

Agutter has appeared in numerous theatre productions since her stage debut in 1970, including stints at the National Theatre in 1972–73, the title role in a derivation of "Hedda Gabler" in 1980 and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982–83, playing in "Arden of Faversham", in "King Lear" and in "Lear".

In 2012, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her active support to charities.

(Croatia)

• Explicit sex in "W.R. - Misterije organizma" also know as "WR: Mysteries of the Organism" (1971)

She was 23 at the time of filming.

Jagoda Kaloper has had a successfull career as a painter, a graphic designer and as an actress.

She made her screen debut at 17 in the 1965 film "Ključ", without any previous acting experience. Parallel to her studies, she continued acting and appeared in Vatroslav Mimica's avant-garde drama "Ponedjeljak ili utorak" also known as "Monday or Tuesday" (1966). The film won the Best Film and the Best Director Golden Arena awards at the 1966 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards festival. She was freshly graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts when she won the award for Best Actress at the 1970 Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for her performance in Krsto Papic's drama "Lisice" also known as "Handcuffs" (1970). In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be one of the best Croatian films ever made.

However, she was best known internationally for her role in Dušan Makavejev's 1971 controversial film "WR: Mysteries of the Organism", which explores through different settings the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as presenting the controversial life and work of Austrian-American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. It was banned in Yugoslavia immediately after release. Makavejev was subsequently indicted there on criminal charges of "derision" towards "the state, its agencies, and representatives" after he made intemperate remarks to a West German newspaper about the ban. He was exiled from his home country. In 2016, it was included in the Top 100 Serbian movies and protected as cultural heritage of great importance. That same year, she played in the war drama "Balada o svirepom..." also known as "Ballad of the Fierceone" (1971). She won the award for Best Actress for her performance in "Kuca" also known as "The House" (1975) at the 1975 Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films.

Parallel to her acting career, Jagoda Kaloper was also an author and artist. She graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1970 and she became a member of the Croatian Association of Artists. She did several exhibitions, mostly in the field of performance, public artistic actions, and happenings. During her artistic career, she also created graphic design for various magazines, books, catalogues, posters, as well as many visual identities for different exhibitions and events. In later years, she occasionally appeared in smaller film and television roles, but preferring to pursue her art career, mostly in the field of painting and sculpture. She won multiple awards in different art fields.

She was married to architect Radovan Tajder with whom she had a daughter, author Ana Tajder.

(USA)

• Explicit sex in "Cry Uncle" (1971)

She was 19 at the time of filming.

Born in North Carolina, Debbi Morgan was the daughter of a teacher and a butcher. She has a younger sister. The family relocated to the Bronx when Debbi was still a child. In a 1997 interview with People, she revealed that her father was an abusive alcoholic. While he never physically harmed his daughters, she recalled her mother often running from her father. Her father died of leukemia in 1975.

"Cry Uncle" (1971) was Debbi Morgan's debut. The movie's release was marred by controversy. Debbi, who was present in the film's unsimulated sex scenes, was officially 19 when the film was shot but it was rumoured that she was born in 1956 and not 1951, which would have made her only 14. As it was illegal, it led to an investigation, which eventually showed that Debbi Morgan was indeed born in 1951 and cleared the filmmakers of any wrong doing. In 1976, she had an uncredited role in the iconic Martin Scorsese movie "Taxi Driver", starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Cybill Shepherd, and she played in the blaxploitation movie "The Monkey Hu$tle", starring Yaphet Kotto.

She then had a recurring role in the television series "What's Happening!!" from 1976 to 1977 and appeared in an episode of the long running series "The Love Boat" in 1979. That same year, she received critical acclaim for her role in the Mini-Series "Roots: The Next Generations" and her guest-starring role in "The White Shadow". She appeared in an episode of "The Incredible Hulk" in 1980 and in an episode of "The Cosby Show" in 1992. In 1989, she became the first African-American to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the ABC soap opera "All My Children". She is known for portraying the same character on three different soap operas. She reprised her role in ABC's "Loving" in 1993 and in "The City" in 1995. She left soap operas and began her film career.

She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Eve's Bayou" (1997) at the 1998 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards. In 1999, she played in "She's All That" with Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook and Anna Paquin, and in "The Hurricane", starring Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber and John Hannah. She did not turn her back on television, however. From 2002 to 2003, Morgan played a lead character alongside co-star Lea Thompson in "For the People". She also played in the fourth and fifth seasons of "Charmed", the popular television series starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan. In 2005, she was cast in "Coach Carter", a sports drama film starring Samuel L. Jackson based on the true story of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter, who made headlines in 1999 for suspending his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results.

Debbi Morgan reprised her role in "All My Children" in 2008. ABC cancelled the series in 2011 and Morgan joined the cast of "The Young and the Restless" in 2011 and 2012. In 2017, Morgan appeared in the Marvel miniseries "The Defenders", starring Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Mike Colter as Luke Cage and Finn Jones as Iron Fist. In 2023, she portrayed Keyshia Cole's mother in the Lifetime biopic "Keyshia Cole This Is My Story". Jasmine Blu from TVfanatic wrote in her review: "Debbi Morgan has always been a force, a legend who deserves every last bit of her flowers right here and now. To say she stole this film would be the understatement of the century. She was magnificent. She did such a remarkable job playing Franky; there were moments it literally gave me chills. It's almost eerie how well Morgan embodied the late mother and grandmother."

Morgan has been married four times and has no children. Her first marriage was to actor, director, singer, and songwriter Charles Weldon from 1980 until 1984. In 1989, Morgan married actor and director Charles S. Dutton, divorcing in 1994. From 1997 until 2000, Morgan was married to photographer Donn Thompson. Morgan has been married to Jeffrey Winston since June 2009.

(USA)

• Explicit nudity in "The Pursuit of Happiness" (1971)
• Explicit nudity in "Boxcar Bertha" (1972)
• Explicit nudity in "The Stunt Man" (1980)
• Explicit nudity in "The Entity" (1982)

She was respectively 23, 24, 31 and 33 at the time of filming.

In a career spanning more than 50 years, Barbara Hershey has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She was born in Hollywood. Her father was a a horse-racing columnist. Her father's parents were Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Russia while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Scots-Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her "Sarah Bernhardt". She was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of ten, she proved herself to be an "A" student. Her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent.

In 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Field's television series "Gidget". Barbara said that she found Field to be very supportive of her in her first acting role. It was followed by a recurring role in the short-lived television series "The Monroes" (1966), which also featured Michael Anderson, Jr. By this point, she had adopted the stage name "Barbara Hershey". Although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying: "One week I was strong, the next, weak". While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Day's final feature film "With Six You Get Eggroll" (1968). That same year, she appeared in an episode of the popular television series "The Invaders" (1968), starring Roy Thinnes in the famous role of David Vincent. She then obtained a more significant role in the Glenn Ford western "Heaven with a Gun" (1969), also starring Carolyn Jones, John Anderson and David Carradine with whom she began a romantic relationship. Carradine said that during the rape scene in that movie, he cracked one of Barbara's ribs. It was the first career nude scene for Angelique Pettyjohn.

In the same year, she played in the controversial drama "Last Summer" (1969), which was based on Evan Hunter's eponymous novel. In this film, Hershey played a character who influences two young men, played by Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas, to rape another girl, played by Catherine Burns who was making her feature film debut. Though the film received an X rating for the graphic rape scene, Burns earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. The movie originally received an X-Rating upon its release. Some minor cuts were made to the dialog and the rape scene so it could receive a R-rating, thus enabling a much wider and profitable release. In 2012, Barbara Hershey revealed that she, Bruce Davison and Richard Thomas didn't really get along. She said: "Bruce and Richard might say something different, but I think Frank was encouraging us more to be into our characters than to bond. He was sort of isolating us from our lives.... We had interaction with each other, but it wasn't like we were a close-knit group." A seagull was killed during filming. Hershey explained, "In one scene, I had to throw the bird in the air to make her fly. We had to shoot the scene over and over again. I could tell the bird was tired. Finally, when the scene was finished, the director, Frank Perry, told me the bird had broken her neck on the last throw." Hershey felt responsible for the bird's death and changed her stage name to "Seagull" as a tribute to the creature. "I felt her spirit enter me," she later explained. "It was the only moral thing to do." The name change was not positively received.

Hershey once said that starring in "Boxcar Bertha" (1972) "was the most fun I ever had on a movie even though it's terribly crippled by Roger Corman (the producer) and the violence and sex." In his autobiography, Martin Scorsese said Roger Corman hired him to direct this film, gave him the script and told him to change whatever he wanted, but he had to remember to include nudity every 15 pages. Corman laughed about that in an interview. He said Scorsese probably remembered it wrong. The film, co-starring Hershey's domestic partner, David Carradine, was Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood picture. Barbara Hershey made it public that the sex scenes of "Boxcar Bertha" were not simulated as she was in a relationship with David Carradine at the time of filming. The two actors recreated some of the nude scenes from the movie in a Playboy spread. By the mid-1970s, Hershey concluded, "I've been so tied up with David [Carradine] that people have forgotten that I am me. I spend 50 percent of my time working with David." She had, in 1974, guest-starred in a two-part episode of Carradine's television series "Kung Fu". She also appeared in two of Carradine's independent directorial projects, "You and Me" (1975) and "Americana" (1983), both of which had been filmed in 1973.

She publicly acknowledged the desire to be recognized in her own right. She did just that, winning a gold medal at the Atlanta Film Festival for her role in the Dutch-produced film "Love Comes Quietly" (1973). Director Nikolai van der Heyde sent many letters to Barbara Hershey, practically begging her to play the lead in his picture. When she finally agreed, she took her then boyfriend David Carradine with her, who used the opportunity to do research for his planned picture about the life of Mata Hari. When Barbara Hershey agreed to participate in this film, she was six months pregnant and so Nikolai van der Heyde rewrote his screenplay to suit her condition. In a revealing scene, the actress undresses to swim in a lake, showing full frontal and rear nudity. The grandparents of Dutch topmodel Doutzen Kroes both play roles as extras. Her grandfather as the doctor and her grandmother as the farmer's wife teaching Barbara Hershey cleaning with sand. In October 1972, Hershey gave birth to a son.

Her relationship with Carradine fell apart around the time of his arrest for attempted burglary and malicious mischief while under the influence of peyote in 1974, and after he had begun an affair with Season Hubley who had guest-starred in "Kung Fu". When she was offered a part opposite Timothy Bottoms in "The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder" (1974), Producer Hugh Hefner insisted that Barbara Hershey's fee be cut in half when she insisted on being billed as "Barbara Seagull" as the new name reduced her box office clout. Later, Hershey starred with Charlton Heston and James Coburn in "The Last Hard Men" (1976). She hoped the film would revive her career after the damage it had suffered while she was with Carradine, believing that the hippie label she had been given was a career impediment. By this time, she had broken up with Carradine and shed her "Seagull" pseudonym. Reportedly, Brian Garfield liked this screen adaptation of his "Gun Down" novel first published in 1971 and gave the film a thumbs up. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, however, Barbara Hershey only appeared in made-for-TV movies, most of them being described as "forgettable", to the exception of the excellent TV-movie "Just a Little Inconvenience" (1977), in which she starred opposite Lee Majors and Jim Davis. In 1979, a blunt newspaper article from the Knight News Service referenced this period of her life, saying of her acting career that "it looked as if she blew it." The article referred to Hershey as a "kook" and stated that she was frequently "high on something". In addition to that criticism, she had been ostracized for breast-feeding her son during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show and for breast-feeding him beyond the age of two. She said that this period of her life hurt her career: "Producers wouldn't see me because I had a reputation for using drugs and being undependable. I never used drugs at all and I have always been serious about my acting career."

After splitting up with Carradine, she changed her stage name back to Hershey, explaining that she had told the story of why she adopted the name "Seagull" so many times that it had lost its meaning. In 1980, Hershey landed a role in Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man" (1980), opposite Peter O'Toole, marking a return to the big screen after four years and earning her critical praise. Hershey felt that she would be forever in debt to Rush for fighting with financiers to allow her a part in that film. She also felt this role was an important transition for her, from playing girls to playing women. Columbia offered the film to Richard Rush on the strength of the success of his previous film, "Getting Straight" (1970). Columbia executives then rejected the script, saying it was difficult to find a genre to place it in. Richard Rush has said of the rejection of his first draft script by Columbia Pictures studio executives: "They couldn't figure out if it was a comedy, a drama, if it was a social satire, if it was an action adventure...and, of course, the answer was, 'Yes, it's all those things.' But that isn't a satisfactory answer to a studio executive." During the long period of the making and release of this film, director Richard Rush suffered two heart attacks. Publicity for this picture declared that the movie "defies categorization." The production notes stated that "while other films can be conveniently classified as comedies, westerns, thrillers or musicals" this film though is "a multi-layered experience." All the major American film distributors refused to distribute this picture. The 20th Century Fox film picked up the picture for distribution the same day the film won the Grand Prix at the Montreal Film Festival. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role - Peter O'Toole; Best Director - Richard Rush and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film is now considered a cult movie. Reportedly, when actor Peter O'Toole first read the movie's script a few years prior to the film getting made, O'Toole said to director Richard Rush "I am an articulate, intelligent man. I read the screenplay and if you don't give me the part I will kill you".

One of the "women roles" that followed for Barbara Hershey included the horror movie "The Entity" (1982). Actresses Jane Fonda, Jill Clayburgh, Bette Midler and Sally Field were initially sought for the role. This movie is based on the real life attack of a Californian woman named Doris Bither. According to Bither, she was constantly raped by the spirits of three men. Two would hold her down while the third raped her. After the premiere, some teenagers of that time sarcastically re-titled the movie as "The En-Titty", after the scene where the Entity attacks Hershey's character while she sleeps, touching her nude breast. Barbara Hershey said, "I resent being put in the position of defending the film. We worked really hard not to make it exploitative. Rape is one of the ugliest, if not THE ugliest thing that can happen to someone. It's murder of a sort. I have no answer for those who are offended. They're right, but I don't think our intention was to exploit the subject, or the result. Truly, I don't. I think we did well with it." When Hershey was interviewed for the Scream Factory Blu-ray of "The Entity" in 2018, she had nothing but kind words to say about director Sidney J. Furie, even saying that going to work on it was fun and stress-free because he was at the helm, making her feel comfortable, safe, and protected at every turn. She also described it as one of the best creative experiences of her career. She won the Best Actress award for her performance in "The Entity" (1982) at the 1983 Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival.

In 1983, she played Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager, in Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff", alongside Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Lance Henriksen, Veronica Cartwright and Pamela Reed. The movie won four Oscars; Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Effects and Best Music, Original Score. the following year, she was cast in Barry Levinson's sports drama "The Natural" (1984), in which she shot Robert Redford's character, inspired by a real-life incident where Ruth Ann Steinhagen shot ballplayer Eddie Waitkus. The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, and Kim Basinger; and three Oscar nominees: Glenn Close, Barbara Hershey, and Richard Farnsworth. In 1986, Hershey left her native California and moved to Manhattan with her son. Three days later, she met briefly with Woody Allen who offered her a role in "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), with Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Maureen O'Sullivan Michael Caine and Max von Sydow. The picture won three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. The film also earned Hershey a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She described her part as "a wonderful gift". She also played the love interest to Gene Hackman's character in the basketball film "Hoosiers" (1986). Hershey then reunited with Barry Levinson for the comedy "Tin Men" (1987), opposite Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss. Barbara Hershey then won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival two years in a row. For her role in "Shy People" in 1987 and for her role in "A World Apart" in 1988. She reunited with Martin Scorsese in "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), also starring Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel. During the filming of "Boxcar Bertha", Hershey had introduced Scorsese to the Nikos Kazantzakis novel on which the latter film was based. That collaboration resulted in an Academy Award nomination for the director and a Golden Globe nod for Hershey. The film attracted controversy not only in the United States, but also internationally due to the frontal nudity in the crucifixion scenes, and the strong implication that Jesus had a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.

Barbara Cloud of the Pittsburgh Press gave attribution to Hershey for starting a trend when she had collagen injected into her lips for her role in "Beaches" (1988), which also starred Bette Midler. Barbara Hershey had collagen lip injections to make herself look younger (she was 40 at the time and was playing Hilary from college age to mid-thirties). In 1989, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses". In 1990, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her role as Candy Morrison in "A Killing in a Small Town" (1990), which was based on the acquittal of Candy Montgomery who killed Betty Gore by hitting her 41 times with an ax. In preparation for the part, Hershey had a phone conversation with Montgomery. In 1992, Hershey married artist Stephen Douglas. The ceremony took place at her home in Connecticut where the only guests were their two mothers and Hershey's then 19-year-old son. The couple separated and divorced one year later. Hershey co-starred with Joe Pesci as a nightclub owner in the film drama "The Public Eye" (1992) and as the abused estranged wife of a homicidal Michael Douglas in the thriller "Falling Down" (1993), also starring Robert Duvall. Michael Douglas considers this his favorite performance of all the movies he has been in. In 1995, Barbara Hershey played in "Last of the Dogmen", co-starring Tom Berenger. Barbara Hershey then won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Jane Campion's adaptation of the Henry James novel "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996), also starring Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Richard E. Grant, Valentina Cervi, Christian Bale and Viggo Mortensen. Barbara Hershey replaced Susan Sarandon who was originally cast to play Madame Merle, but had to pull out when the shooting schedule was delayed and interfered with the beginning of her daughter's school year.

In 1999, Hershey starred in an independent film called "Drowning on Dry Land". During production she she began a romantic relationship with co-star Naveen Andrews. In 2001, Hershey appeared in the psychological thriller "Lantana". She was the only American in a mostly Australian cast, which included Kerry Armstrong, Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush. Anthony LaPaglia had to work with a dialect coach to regain his native Australian accent. He had lost it from years of working on American movies. Film writer Sheila Johnson said the film was "one of the best to emerge from Australia in years." In 2003, Hershey played in another thriller "11:14", which also featured Rachael Leigh Cook, Patrick Swayze, Hilary Swank, Clark Gregg and Colin Hanks.

During the 2000s, Barbara Hershey continuously appeared on television, including a season on the series "The Mountain" between 2004 and 2005. During a brief separation with Naveen Andrews in 2005, Andrews fathered a child with another woman. In May 2010, the couple announced that they had ended their 10-year relationship six months earlier. In 2010, Hershey appeared in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Expres"s for the British television series "Poirot" starring David Suchet. Also in 2010, Hershey co-starred in Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed psychological thriller "Black Swan" (2010) opposite Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. That same year, she co-starred Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson in the horror film "Insidious" (2010). From 2012 to 2016, she had a recurring role in ABC's hit television drama "Once Upon a Time", starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Carlyle, Jennifer Morrison and Emilie de Ravin. She reprised her role in "Insidious: Chapter 2" (2013), and again in "Insidious: The Last Key" (2018). That same year, she appeared in one episode of "The X Files". In 2020, she is part of the main cast in the television series "Paradise Lost", alonside Bridget Regan, Shane McRae, Nick Nolte and Josh Hartnett.

• Explicit nudity in "Vampire Circus" (1972)

She performs her nude scene with her husband Milovan Vesnitch. The movie was censored.

(France)

• Explicit sex in "Ultimo tango a Parigi" also know as "Last Tango in Paris" (1972)

She was 19 at the time of filming.

Maria Schneider was a French actress born in Paris from an adulterous relationship between French actor Daniel Gélin, who never recognised Maria as his daughter, and Marie-Christine Schneider, a former model from Romania who ran a bookshop in Paris. Daniel Gélin was married to actress and producer Danièle Delorme during the affair and his lack of father-level involvement was deeply felt by his daughter. Schneider was first brought up by her mother in a town near the French border with Germany. Eventually, her mother was unwilling to attend to her and entrusted her to a nurse for two years. Maria Schneider later lived for several years with her maternal uncle Michel Schneider and his wife. She reconnected with her biological father when she was sixteen, by visiting him unannounced. Schneider later said that she had met Gélin only "three times". Her cousin Vanessa Schneider wrote, in a biographical book published in 2018, that Maria Schneider had actually been in regular contact with her father during her late teens. It was he who first brought her to a film set. Over the years, Maria Schneider and her biological father met irregularly. She eventually bonded with her half-siblings who had been unaware of her until after she starred in "Last Tango in Paris", especially her half-sister, actress Fiona Gélin.

As a teenager, Schneider loved films, going to the cinema up to four times a week. She left home at age 15 after an argument with her mother and went to Paris, where she made her stage-acting debut that same year. She eked out a living as a film extra and a model. While working on a film set, she met Brigitte Bardot, who, having worked with her father on several productions (a father who refused to help his daughter), was "horrified" that the young actress was homeless and offered her a room in her house. Through Bardot, Schneider met people in the film business, including Warren Beatty, who was greatly impressed by Schneider, and introduced her to the William Morris Agency.

She was 18 when she had her first break in 1970, appearing in "Madly", starring Alain Delon and Mireille Darc. This was followed by relatively substantial roles in films such as "Les jambes en l'air" (1971), starring Sylva Koscina, Roger Vadim's "Hellé" (1972) in which she had full frontal nude scenes, and "La Vieille Fille" also known as "The Old Maid" (1972) with Philippe Noiret, Annie Girardot, Michael Lonsdale and Marthe Keller.

Maria Schneider gained international recognition at the age of 19 for her performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's sexually explicit "Last Tango in Paris" (1972). In 2001, Schneider commented: "Last Tango... first major role. In fact, it's a total coincidence. I was friends with actress Dominique Sanda. She was supposed to take the role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was pregnant. She had a large picture with her of both of us. Bertolucci saw it and he made me do a casting. Sylvia Kristel auditioned for the role but failed. Two years later, Kristel became a global sex symbol after starring in "Emmanuelle". A lot of controversy surrounds "Last Tango in Paris" with the actress stating that Bertolucci only revealed to her on the same day of filming that she was going to do a rape scene which was not in the script. Bertolucci claimed that it was because he wanted her distress to be authentic. She was forced into it by a very unapologetic Marlon Brando who downplayed the incident. In 2007, she said: "I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take." Criminal proceedings were brought against Bertolucci in Italy. He received a four-month suspended prison sentence and his civil rights were revoked for five years. The film was confiscated by the censorship commission and banned in Spain. Maria Schneider said that Bernardo Bertolucci ruined her life. In his autobiography Marlon Brando said that Bertolucci was one of the best directors he ever worked with.

Schneider said that due to her experience with the film and her treatment afterward as a sex symbol rather than as a serious actress, she decided never to work nude again. She started struggling with depression, became a drug addict and made several suicide attempts. In 1973, she starred in Enrico Maria Salerno's drama "Cari genitori" also known as "Dear Parents", alongside Catherine Spaak and Florinda Bolkan, a movie about the generation gap that exists between a mother and a daughter, and in "Reigen" also known as "Dance of Love" with Sydne Rome, a movie based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler.

In 1975, she was cast opposite Jack Nicholson in the well-received Michelangelo Antonioni film "Professione: reporter" also known as "The Passenger", which remains one of the highlights of her career and was the personal favorite of the actress. After initially refusing the role, Maria Schneider did not sign until the film was several weeks into production. Susan George had arrived in Barcelona to play the part only to discover that Maria Schneider had been cast. Bollywood actress Simi Garewal was also considered for the lead role .This was when Maria Schneider was in drug rehab and had to opt out. Just as Simi gave her approval Maria got a letter from her doctor that she was fit to film the movie. Maria Schneider argued with Michelangelo Antonioni about her nude scene. Having just made "Last Tango in Paris", she was worried about being constantly perceived as a sex object. As it transpired, the scene in question is shot from a distance and is very discreet. Jack Nicholson also said publicly that it was "probably the biggest adventure in filming" that he ever had in his life. Wanting to protect a piece of art that he loved, Jack Nicholson bought the rights to the film from MGM shortly after its release, and kept it out of circulation for many years. Maria Schneider was suffering from excruciating back pain during filming and would often be in a medicated muddle towards the end of the day when her pain medications kicked in. In one scene, Jack Nicholson had to physically prop her up. That same year, Schneider also starred in René Clément's final movie, the Hitchcockian thriller "La baby sitter" also known as "Wanted: Babysitter" (1975), in which she shares the screen with Sydne Rome again and Robert Vaughn. According to Schneider, the director actually wanted the actress for the villainous role; yet, when Antonioni screened "The Passenger" for him, Clément decided that Schneider would be ideal for the heroine.

During the '70s, Schneider traveled (including to the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation) and lived in various parts of Europe, including Venice, Paris, and London. After "The Passenger" and "Wanted: Babysitter", Schneider settled in Los Angeles for a year, looking around for film opportunities. Schneider opted to star in small-budgeted, independent European productions, such as the little-seen Swiss period piece "Violanta" (1977), with a young Gérard Depardieu. She was offered roles in Hollywood movies such as "Black Sunday" (1977) as a Palestinian guerilla terrorist, which she turned down based on what she perceived to be poor quality material. She signed up with renowned talent agent and producer Paul Kohner and several movies were considered, but ultimately little came of this. Work became difficult for her to find, as she had become uninsurable. Moving back to Europe, Schneider was asked by director Tinto Brass to play Drusilla, the incestuous sister of a notorious Roman emperor, opposite Malcolm McDowell, in the infamous, pornographic, multi-million dollar Penthouse production of "Caligula". Schneider refused to perform nude or do graphic sex scenes. She stormed out of the film set shouting "I am an actress, not a prostitute!". She checked herself into a mental hospital in Rome for several days to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend, which led to her dismissal from the film and to be replaced mid-production with Teresa Ann Savoy. Around the same time, Schneider agreed to star in Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977). She showed up on set, yet argued with the filmmaker over how her role would be portrayed in light of Schneider's growing concern regarding the depiction of women in cinema, and because of excessive nudity. Schneider ultimately dropped out and Buñuel made the creative, unusual decision to replace her with not one but two actresses for the same role: Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina. She was asked to play Mary, mother of Jesus in Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 television miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth". Schneider said she did not feel right for the part, though later regretted missing out on this opportunity.

Maria Schneider became a women's rights advocate, in particular fighting for more female film directors, more respect for female actors, and better representation of women in film and media. "I'm still struggling for the image of women in film and I'm still working, not as much as I would like to because for a woman in her late forties, it's hard to find work. Not only in France. I had a chat with Anjelica Huston last year. We spoke about the same problem, you know. I don't know where it comes from? The writers, the producers, or the directors. But I think it's a pity for the public." She opted to play in three consciously feministic works: the Italian production "Io Sono Mia" also known as "I Belong to Me" (1978), with Stefania Sandrelli; the graphic, disturbing "La Dérobade" also known as "Memoirs of a French Whore" (1979), alongside Miou-Miou, and for which Schneider was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 1980 César Awards; and the lesbian Dutch drama "Een vrouw als Eva" also known as "A Woman Like Eve" (1979), directed by Nouchka van Brakel, in which Schneider plays the bohemian love interest of conflicted Monique van de Ven who is married to and has children with Peter Faber. During production, Maria Schneider had an affair with cinematographer Nurith Aviv.

Towards the end of the decade, famed arthouse director Jacques Rivette met Schneider at a café on the Champs-Elysées and asked her what kind of movie she'd like to make with him, to which Schneider replied "a thriller". Rivette then asked which actor she'd like to star with and she suggested her friend Joe Dallesandro, renowned for his association with Andy Warhol and leading performances in Paul Morrissey's films. The result was the vague, symbolic crime drama "Merry-Go-Round" (1980), a troubled production that Schneider and Rivette, both overcome by ill health and personal issues, eventually completed, and was finally released to mediocre reviews.

The 1980s were a much quieter period for Schneider, both personally and professionally. Following issues with multiple drug addictions (including cocaine, LSD, and heroin[18]) and a suicide attempt in the '70s, Schneider once and for all overcame these problems by the early '80s, which she accredited to 'her angel', which may have been life-partner Maria Pia Almadio. The beginning of the decade saw the actress appearing in a campy Belgian vampire comedy with Louise Fletcher, "Mama Dracula" (1980), based on the true story of Countess Bathory, an enthusiast of rejuvenation baths consisting of the blood of young virgins, which received universally negative reviews from critics. The same year, she performed alongside Klaus Kinski and Katia Tchenko in the French thriller "Haine" (1980).

1981 saw Schneider in "Sezona mira u Parizu", a Yugoslavian picture set in the French capital, which follows a documentarian researching the history of Nazism in Paris. There he meets and falls in love with Schneider's mysterious character, who helps him out on his quest. The picture won a Special Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. It featured Schneider's father, Daniel Gélin, in a supporting role as a taxi driver. None of his scenes are shared with Maria, however. As of 2016 it was included in the #100 Serbian movies list (1911-1999) and protected as cultural heritage of great importance. She then offered performances in two comedies; the Italian "Cercasi Gesù" also known as "Looking for Jesus" (1982) with Fernando Rey, and the French "Balles perdues" also known as "Stray Bullets" (1983) with Capucine and Andréa Ferréol. Starting from 1984, Schneider began appearing more regularly in European television movies and shows, such as "A Song for Europe" (1985) with David Suchet, while doing supporting roles in cinematic turns like the Japanese "Yoroppa tokkyu" also known as "The Princess and the Photographer" (1984) alongside Mylène Demongeot. Towards the end of the 1980s, Schneider had substantial roles in the French thriller "Résidence surveillée" (1987) alongside Myriam Mézières, and the post-apocalyptic surrealistic comedy "Bunker Palace Hôtel" (1989) with three other legends of French cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Léaud, who was a member of the cast in "Last Tango in Paris".

In 1973, Schneider made her bisexuality public. She told The New York Times: "I left my mother's home when I was 15, and I had my first affair at 16. We did everything, but not penetration. Now I'm bisexual completely, and I've had quite a few lovers for my age. More men than women. Probably 50 men and 20 women. I'm incapable of fidelity. I have a need for a million experiences. Women I love more for beauty than for sex. Men I love for grace and intelligence." Schneider said that she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from "Last Tango in Paris". She suffered abuse and began taking drugs. "I was rock 'n' roll. About drugs, we did not know at the time, it was so dangerous. There was an ideal, to change society and especially a thirst for novelty. I have lost seven years of my life and I regret it bitterly. I started using drugs when I became famous. I did not like the celebrity, and especially the image full of innuendo, naughty, that people had of me after Last Tango. In addition, I had no family behind me to protect me. I suffered abuse. People who come up to tell you unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded."

In 2001, Schneider was the guest of honor at the 23rd Festival Créteil Films de Femmes. In a master class at the festival, she called film "a tracing of memory", and said that women must be recognized as actors and directors. She also brought attention to the importance of assisting senior French actors who become unemployed and impoverished. Schneider was chosen the same year as vice-president of La Roue Tourne, an organization in Paris that supports senior French actors and directors. According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, director of "Children of Paradise" (1945) and one of the most important directors of the late 1930s, would have died in poverty but for La Roue Tourne supporting him for the last 10 years of his life. In 2010, Schneider was awarded the medal of Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, for her contributions to the arts by the French Minister of Culture and Communication.

Schneider died of cancer in February 2011 at age 58. Her funeral was attended by actors, directors, and producers in French cinema such as Dominique Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, and Andréa Ferreol, her partner Maria Pia Almadio, half-siblings Fiona and Manuel Gélin. After Schneider's death, Patti Smith released a song on her 2012 album Banga called "Maria", which was dedicated both to the actress and nostalgic memories of the 1970s. In 2018, her cousin Vanessa Schneider published "Tu t'appelais Maria Schneider", a book about her.

(USA)

• Explicit nudity in "Bone" (1972)

She was 37 at the time of filming.

Joyce Van Patten is an American film and stage actress born in New York City. Her older brother was actor Dick Van Patten.

She made her acting debut on stage at age 9 in "Tomorrow, the World!", a successful 1943 Broadway play. She appeared on Broadway in "A Hole in the Head", "Brighton Beach Memoirs", "Murder at the Howard Johnson's", "Rumours", "Jake's Women" and "Rabbit Hole". Off-Broadway, she appeared in stage plays such as "Love, Loss, and What I Wore", "The Vagina Monologues", and Chekhov's "The Seagull".

Joyce Van Patten appeared in a plethora of television series including "Kraft Television Theatre" (1949-1951), winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards, "Mama" in 1954, starring Peggy Wood, Judson Laire and Joyce's sibling Dick Van Patten, "Robert Montgomery Presents" in 1956. She was a member of the original cast of CBS' soap opera "As the World Turns" in 1956-1957, which holds the record of longest total running time of any television show. She appeared in "Young Dr. Malone" (1959-1960), "Deadline" (1959), "The Law and Mr. Jones" (1961), "Target: The Corruptors" (1962), "Checkmate" (1962), "Wide Country" (1962), "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1963), "Gunsmoke" (1963), "Stoney Burke" (1963), "The Untouchables" (1963), "The Twilight Zone" (1963), "The Defenders" (1963), "Perry Mason" (1963-1965), "The Outer Limits" (1964), "Karen" (1965), "The Jack Benny Program" (1965), "Slattery's People" (1965), "The Virginian" (1965), to name but a few. In 1966, she was a featured regular on "The Danny Kaye Show", after which she appeared in "Mannix" (1967) and she co-starred with Bob Denver and Herb Edelman in the 1968–70 sitcom "The Good Guys" as the long-suffering wife of the diner owner played by Edelman. It would have seemed almost impossible to switch on your tv at that time without seeing Joyce Van Patten's face.

Her acting career naturally extended to the big screen. She had a supporting role in Hy Averback's romantic comedy "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!", starring Peter Sellers and Leigh Taylor-Young. Herb Edelman, was also a member of the supporting cast. At the time this film was released Herb Edelman and Joyce Van Patten were appearing as husband and wife in the TV series "The Good Guys". The film's title is a tribute to Gertrude Stein's lifelong partner, Alice B. Toklas, who published a cookbook in 1954 that contained the first printed recipe for hash fudge. This was not a happy period in Peter Sellers's life. He was miserable working in the U.S. and furious that his second wife, Britt Ekland, had signed to make "The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)," which was filming on the East Coast while he was working in Hollywood. As a result, he acted out on the set a great deal. At one point, he was convinced the crew hated him and was leaking unfavourable stories about him to the press, so he tried to have them all fired. Peter Sellers developed a crush on Leigh Taylor-Young, who was married at the time to Ryan O'Neal. That made a huge problem with the scene in which his character is supposed to turn on his hippie sweetheart. Hy Averback tried to get Sellers to change the way he was playing the scene to no avail. When producer Paul Mazursky stepped in and told Sellers his behaviour was hurting the film, the actor turned on him, ending the relationship they had just begun to repair.

In 1969, Joyce Van Patten played in "The Trouble with Girls", a movie directed by Peter Tewksbury and starring Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason and Sheree North. It is based on the 1960 novel Chautauqua by Day Keene and Dwight Vincent Babcock. Margaret Harford of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "never makes up its mind where to go and how to get there ... The trouble with the picture is not girls; it's indecision by the writers, Arnold and Lois Peyser about whether we should laugh at the corny entertainment of 40-odd years ago, or cry over the troubles of a lonely widow who drinks too much." It performed poorly in cinemas but strongly on the drive-in circuit. The only feature film of tragic TV child star Anissa Jones (1958-1976) who died of drug overdose after partying in the beach town of Oceanside, California, with her new boyfriend, Allan "Butch" Koven.

Joyce Van Patten then appeared in the television series "The Odd Couple" (1970) with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, "Family Affair" (1970) with Brian Keith, Anissa Jones, Johnny Whitaker, Sebastian Cabot and Kathy Garver, and "Hawaii Five-O" from 1970 to 1972. She played alongside Ian McShane, Anna Calder-Marshall and Beba Loncar in Rod Amateau's sex comedy "Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You" (1970), the sequel to Woody Allen's successful "What's New Pussycat" (1965). Very little nudity is shown for a sex comedy. The Los Angeles Times said the film falls down with "a thud". In 1971, she appeared in the television series "The F.B.I.", starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Philip Abbott, and "Nichols", starring James Garner, Margot Kidder and John Beck. She could also be seen in movie theatres in Andrew V. McLaglen's western "Something Big", starring Dean Martin, Carol White, Brian Keith and Honor Blackman.

In 1972, she had a co-starring role in Larry Cohen's black comedy crime movie "Bone", opposite Yaphet Kotto, Jeannie Berlin and Andrew Duggan. Filming started in July 1971. The film tells the story of a home invasion perpetrated by Kotto's character, who soon realizes that his victims are less wealthy and far unhappier than they initially appeared. Larry Cohen explained the theme of the movie in a 2019 interview: "It deals with problems we still face today in America. The film is revolutionary because it cuts to the heart of racial prejudice. And some of that is indeed sexual, where the white man has a fear of the black man’s sexuality. It’s a thorn in the side of the white community. They’re still afraid of black people." Asked about the explicit and violent scene between the title character played by Yaphet Kotto and the character played by Joyce Van Patten, director Larry Cohen said, "Joyce was a good sport about it and got into the action. Obviously, the whole crew were standing around and there was nothing intimate about the situation. I think the most shocked of anybody on the crew was good old George Folsey and his cohorts from MGM. They were all between seventy-five and eighty years old, and these elderly gentlemen were not used to seeing a Black man mauling a White woman like that. It was certainly nothing that they had ever anticipated shooting in a movie, but they did their job. Nobody in the crew ever said anything to me, but I do think they were a little shocked by it. They were probably thinking, What have I got myself into here?"

Joyce then appeared in several television series including "Medical Center" with James Daly and Chad Everett in 1972, "The Bob Newhart Show" in 1973, "The Streets of San Francisco" (1973) with Karl Malden, "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law" (1974) and "Columbo" with Peter Falk in 1974 and in 1976. She could also be seen at the cinema in two movies that year; Michael Ritchie's sports comedy "The Bad News Bears" (1976), one of 1976's top-grossing films, starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal, and Elaine May's gangster movie "Mikey and Nicky" (1976), starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. This was a personal film for director Elaine May as she grew up in a mob-connected family, and the characters are based on low-level mobsters she knew at the time.

After that, she did more television work. She appeared in a variety of television series including "The Rockford Files" (1977), starring James Garner, "Lou Grant" (1977), starring Edward Asner, "Family" (1977), starring Kristy McNichol and James Broderick. She also played in movies for television including a starring role in Lee Philips' comedy "The Comedy Company" (1978), in which she reunited with Herb Edelman, a co-starring role in Paul Bogart's comedy "You Can't Take It with You" (1979), an adaptation of a Broadway production by George S. Kaufman, alongside Jean Stapleton, Art Carney and Blythe Danner, a co-starring role in William Asher's family drama "A Christmas for Boomer" (1979), opposite Al Molinaro and Sheree North, and a supporting role in John Erman's drama "Eleanor, First Lady of the World" (1982), biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, starring Jean Stapleton in the title role and Gail Strickland.

In 1985, Joyce Van Patten played in John Schlesinger's spy drama based on a true story "The Falcon and the Snowman", starring Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton and Lori Singer. tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Andrew Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), who sold US security secrets to the Soviet Union. The film was made and released about six years after its source book "The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage" by Robert Lindsey. Director John Schlesinger and Sean Penn never got along during production. It got to the point where they were not on speaking terms. The film was a muted success at the box office, but received rave reviews for the performances of Penn and Hutton. Film critic Roger Ebert gave it a perfect four-star rating, citing one of the many strengths as that "it succeeds, in an admirably matter-of-fact way, in showing us exactly how these two young men got in way over their heads. This is a movie about spies, but it is not a thriller in any routine sense of the word. It's just the meticulously observant record of how naiveté, inexperience, misplaced idealism and greed led to one of the most peculiar cases of treason in American history."

That same year, Joyce van Patten played in Joel Schumacher's coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), starring Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andie MacDowell, Emilio Estevez and Mare Winningham. Breakthrough film as a director for writer and former costume designer Joel Schumacher. Andie MacDowell credits this film for changing her life and career. Director Joel Schumacher saw Demi Moore walk down the hallway in his office's building and asked a colleague to run after her and find out if she was an actress. Schumacher's production office at the time was in the same place as that of John Hughes' office where Moore had just been visiting regarding a casting call. Much like her character, Demi Moore (Jules) had a drug problem when she was cast in the film. One day, director Joel Schumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem. Moore revealed in an auto-biography later that she had a cocaine problem and was using an eighth of an ounce of the drug every two days. She went to treatment for 15 days and then had a counselor with her while shooting the film. Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore began dating during the filming of the movie. He said he was "deeply in love with her." For a time they were even engaged, though they never married. Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten, who played Mare Winningham's parents, were married in real life from 1957 to 1962.

The following year, Joyce Van Patten reunited with Karl Malden, co-starring in John Gray's drama "Billy Galvin" (1986), based on true events. In 1988, she played in George A. Romero's psychological horror movie "Monkey Shines", alongside Jason Beghe, Kate McNeil and John Pankow. It follows a young athlete who becomes a paralyzed quadriplegic and develops a bond with an intelligent service monkey who becomes homicidal after it is injected with an experimental serum of human brain tissue. It is based on the 1983 British novel of the same name by Michael Stewart. It receiving mixed reviews and a lacklustre box-office reception. In the intervening years, the film has been noted by critics as an offbeat entry in Romero's filmography, and has earned status as a minor cult film. Producer Charles Evans said the oral sex scene between Kate McNeil and Jason Beghe was much more explicit as original shot. "We had a pretty raw scene of explicit sex and George kept toning it down and toning it down. I wanted it to be a little grittier, but George didn't see it that way. As I look back now and see the result, I think he was right," Evans said. Joyce Van Patten subsequently appeared in a succession of popular television series including "Amazing Stories" in 1986, "Sisters" in 1991, "Brooklyn Bridge" in 1992, "Law & Order" in 1993, "Northern Exposure" in 1994, "Now and Again" in 1999, "Oz" in 2002, "The Sopranos" in 2002, "NYPD Blue" in 2002, and "Desperate Housewives" in 2005.

She then had a role in David Frankel's romantic comedy "Marley & Me" (2008), based on the 2005 memoir of the same name by John Grogan, starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston and Kathleen Turner. In 2011, she played in Paolo Sorrentino's drama "This Must Be the Place", starring Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father's tormentor, a Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the United States. The film was in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Joyce Van Patten appeared in an episode of the television series "The Good Wife", starring Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Alan Cumming and Archie Panjabi. In 2013, she starred in Charles Haine's drama "Angel's Perch". she appeared in an episode of the HBO television series "Boardwalk Empire", winner of 20 Primetime Emmy Awards, starring Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Gretchen Mol, Michael Pitt and Paz de la Huerta. In 2018, she had a supporting role in Kent Jones's drama "Diane", starring Mary Kay Place.

Joyce Van Patten was only aged 16 when she got married. She gave birth to a son a year later. She was married to actor Martin Balsam from 1959 to 1962, and they had a daughter, actress Talia Balsam.

(Spain)

• Explicit nudity in "Eugenie" also know as "Eugenie De Sade" (1973)

She was 27 at the time of filming.

The movie was made in 1970. Unfortunately this was her last role as she died tragically in a car accident a few months later.

She was an actress and pop singer. She released numerous Spanish-language pop songs throughout the mid-60s. She was the niece of Paquita Rico, a famous Spanish singer, actress and flamenco dancer. Soledad Miranda was hired as a flamenco dancer and singer at age 8. She went on tour throughout southern Spain.

She made her film debut in 1960 as a dancer in a musical called "La Bella Mimí". She was often in the tabloids as the rumored girlfriend of the most famous bullfighter of the time: Manuel Benítez (El Cordobés). Director Jess Franco, for whom Miranda had done a small role in his musical "Queen of the Tabarin Club", made Miranda his frequent star in his films.

(USA)

• Explicit nudity in "The Cheerleaders" (1973)

She was 25 at the time of filming.

The film was surrounded by controversy due to its plot and subject matter. Underage characters running around nude and having sex with adults, which is considered as statutory rape.

(Canada)

• Explicit nudity in "The Cheerleaders" (1973).

Her only acting role. She had no problems being nude when asked to disrobe during the audition. She was considered by the director as the most comfortable of the cheerleaders being naked.

(Italy)

• Explicit nudity in "Storie scellerate" also know as "Bawdy Tales" (1973)
• Explicit nudity in "L'Important c'est d'aimer" also know as "That Most Important Thing: Love" (1975)
• Explicit nudity in "Al di là del bene e del male" also know as "Beyond Good and Evil" (1977)

She was respectively 29, 31 and 33 at the time of filming.

"Bawdy Tales" received an Italian censorship on release. She was a descendant of the Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli also known as Nicholas Machiavel. She studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence. She was discovered by producer Dino De Laurentiis. She played in a series of spaghetti westerns before moving to art film.

(The Netherlands)

• Explicit sex in "Turks fruit" also know as "Turkish Delight" (1973)
• Explicit sex in "Brandende liefde" also know as "Burning Love" (1983) with a close shot of her giving birth

She was respectively 21 and 31 at the time of filming.

"Turkish Delight" was her debut as an actress. This movie was an immediate breakthrough for her acting career. Willeke van Ammelrooy was the first choice for the role but she was too greedy. Another reason why director Paul Verhoeven chose Monique van de Ven was because he considered Willeke van Ammelrooij too sensual for the role of an innocent girl. The Paul Verhoeven film was nominated for an Academy Award and was chosen as the best Dutch film of the century. It was rejected by the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France who considered it as pornographic. The book on which this movie was based is very popular and is read a lot in Dutch schools. In 1986, Monique van de Ven played in the Oscar-winning film "The Assault".

(United Kingdom)

• Explicit sex in "Don't Look Now" (1973)

She was 33 at the time of filming.

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie met for the first time on the set of this film. The first scene they had to shoot was the sex scene. Still the most talked about sex scene in Hollywood to this day with a "did they, didn't they?" situation. A member of the film crew confirmed that they had real sex but it was denied by the actors. Donald Sutherland was a married man and Julie Christie was in a relationship with Warren Beatty at the time. In 2011, Donald Sutherland and producer Peter Katz issued denials to the longstanding rumor that the actors had engaged in unsimulated intercourse during their sex scene. 9 frames (less than half a second) had to be cut from the intimate love sequence in order to avoid an X-certificate rating in the US. The famous sex scene was completely removed by the British and Irish censors.

Julie Christie has been actively supporting various causes including animal rights, environmental protection and the anti-nuclear power movement. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, Christie is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.