Maria de Medeiros
Nude

Those big, wide, woebegone waif’s eyes; the high, round cheeks puffed out like a sexy, humanized squirrel; the long quivering nose; the tightly controlled lips that suddenly break into a giant shining smile — Portuguese-born Maria de Medeiros‘s face of spritely innocence may have made her an unlikely supermodel, but her unfettered expressiveness served her well once she’d made the jump to the actress game. The gorgeous gamine’s unfettered nymphet breasts and exploratory sexuality also served her well, particularly in the sensually charged skinema of Henry and June (1990). The story of libertine writer Henry Miller and his do-anything wife, Henry and June‘s crowning glory is a naked tit-a-tete tussle between Maria and the blooming Uma Thurman. The Sapphic emoting was so scorching that a new rating had to be invented before the film was released to avoid an X: thus, NC-17. But let’s go back to when Maria got her start. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, to famed musician and composer António Victorino de Almeida, Maria started acting when she was just fifteen. At eighteen, she moved to France to study acting at CNSAD. And the rest was Skinstory! Since Henry and June, Maria has stripped for other projects, including Man of My Life (1992), Huevos de oro (1993) and Ni à vendre ni à louer (2011), all of which feature Maria’s mams. She also showed off in her undies in Pulp Fiction (1994), but that scene was a little chaste given her other skinful endeavors. Mr. Skin hopes to see more of Maria!