Valentina Cortese
Acting
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.
Born: January 1, 1923
Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Known For
Filmography
as Madre Superiora
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Serafina Tannenbaum
as Donna Prassede
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
as madre di Guido
as Rachele Cigno
as Rose Valdez
as Elena Merrill
as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
as Dolores
as Herodias
as Witwe
as Regina
as Sabina Foschini
as Grazia Filippini
as Olghina Franchetti
as Elizabeth Blixen
as Sabina Foschini
as Elisa Rutelli
as Séverine
as Natalia Trotsky
as Pica Di Bernardone
as Luisa Sola
as Madame Sobieski
as Catherine
as Eva
as Mutter
as Madeleine de Lépine
as Gabriella (uncredited)
as Ornella
as Lallo's Mother
as Countess Bozo Bedoni
as Maria
as Valentina
as Irma
as Mathilda Miller
as Laura Craven-Torrani
as Eleonora Duse
as Julia
as Erica Bernardi
as Marisa
as Fanny
as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
as Nene
as Teresa Casati
as Adriana Lecouvreur
as Mathilde Wesendonk
as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
as Luprandi's wife
as Vally
as Lisa
as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
as Dr. Bruni
as Victoria Kowelska
as Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
as Luana
as Rica
as Zoraida
as Alida Morrosini
as Maria Pilar
as Ester
as Cosetta
as Fantine
as Barbara
as La ragazza
as Maria
as Valentina
as Marianna
as Valentina
as Lisabetta
as Madge
as Nerina Redi
as Alina