Valentina Cortese
Acting
Born: 1923-01-01 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Biography
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.
Known For
Jesus of Nazareth
Herodias
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Queen Ariadne / Violet
Appassionata
Elisa Rutelli
First Love
Mutter
Barabbas
Julia
The Visit
Mathilda Miller
I promessi sposi
Donna Prassede
The Barefoot Contessa
Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
Day for Night
Séverine
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Ornella
The Rocket from Calabuch
Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
Listen, Let's Make Love
Lallo's Mother
Juliet of the Spirits
Valentina
Black Magic
Zoraida
Thieves' Highway
Rica
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Gabriella (uncredited)
Le Amiche
Nene
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Pica Di Bernardone
Crossroads of Passion
Maria Pilar
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Cosetta
The Assassination of Trotsky
Natalia Trotsky
Quarta pagina
Valentina
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self
When Time Ran Out...
Rose Valdez
Il killer
I grandi camaleonti
Giuseppina Bonaparte
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Dr. Bruni
Secret People
Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
Un americano in vacanza
Maria
Via Montenapoleone
madre di Guido
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Laura Craven-Torrani
Ring of Darkness
Elena Merrill
La Classe américaine
The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Olghina Franchetti
The Kiss
Elizabeth Blixen
Black Sun
Maria
Malaya
Luana
The Love Mates
Eva