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".
