The French actress Maria Schneider, best known for her performances in Last Tango in Paris and The Passenger has died at the age of 58 after a long illness. Schneider was 19 when she was cast opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s sexually explicit, controversial, butter-filled Last Tango. It was the part she was most famous for, but an experience she did not remember fondly. [Reuters]