Valentina Cortese
Biography
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Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress.
The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night.
Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.
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Known For
Acting
1973
asSeverine
1971
asCatherine
1979
asElena Merrill
1972
asPica Di Bernardone
1949
asRica
1972
asNatalia Trotsky
1948
asFantine
1961
asJulia
1941
as
1963
asLaura Craven-Torrani
1954
asEleanora Torlato-Favrini
1951
asVictoria Kowelska
1954
asLuprandi's wife
1988
asQueen Ariadne / Violet
1949
asLuana
1994
asMadre Superiora
1980
asRose Valdez
1955
asNene
1965
asValentina
1974
asElisa Rutelli
1949
asZoraida
1968
asCountess Bozo Bedoni
1970
asEva
1956
asEloísa, la maestra de escuela
1966
asMaria
1952
asMaria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
1987
asRachele Cigno
1955
asMathilde Wesendonk
1954
as
1975
as
1978
asWilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
1974
as
1970
asMutter
1947
asBarbara
1946
asMaria
1991
asSerafina Tannenbaum
1953
asLisa
1961
asErica Bernardi
1964
asMathilda Miller
1942
asValentina
1962
asEleonora Duse
1942
as
1942
asMadge
1942
as
1972
asLuisa Sola
1968
asLallo's Mother
1942
asLisabetta
1974
asElizabeth Blixen
1949
asAlida Morrosini
1955
asAdriana Lecouvreur
1948
asEster
1945
asValentina
1943
asMarianna
1958
asMarisa
1948
asCosetta
1948
asMaria Pilar
1970
asMadeleine de Lépine
1970
asGabriella (uncredited)
1988
asGina Grandi
1977
asDolores
1954
asVally
1941
asAlina
1975
asGrazia Filippini
1976
asWitwe
1975
asOlghina Franchetti
1943
as
1969
asOrnella
2000
asSelf
1942
asMaria Renda / Luisa Renda
1987
asmadre di Guido
2017
as
1974
as
1947
as
1950
asElizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
1965
asSelf
1941
asNerina Redi
1946
asLa ragazza
1955
asTeresa Casati
1976
asRegina
1957
asFanny
1945
asLuisella
1993
asThe Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
asIrma
1971
asMadame Sobieski
1953
as
1965
asSelf
asEmilie Gallatin
asDr. Bruni
asHerodias
asDonna Prassede
as Production
Crew
Directing
