Valentina Cortese
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1 January 1923
Died10 July 2019 (age 96)
Place of birthMilan, Lombardy, Italy
Known credits97
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…
Diva!
2017
Le ragazze di Milano
2007 · Self
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000 · Self
Sparrow
1994 · Madre Superiora
La Classe américaine
1993 · The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buster's Bedroom
1991 · Serafina Tannenbaum
I promessi sposi
1989 · Donna Prassede
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988 · Queen Ariadne / Violet
Young Toscanini
1988 · Comparsa (uncredited)
Facciaffittasi
1988 · Gina Grandi
Facciaffittasi
1988 · Gina Grandi
Via Montenapoleone
1987 · madre di Guido
Blue Tango
1987 · Rachele Cigno
La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa
1981 · Caterina de Dominicis
When Time Ran Out...
1980 · Rose Valdez
Ring of Darkness
1979 · Elena Merrill
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978 · Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
Widows' Nest
1977 · Dolores
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · Herodias
The Big Operator
1976 · Witwe
Nick the Sting
1976 · Regina
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975 · Sabina Foschini
Kidnap Syndicate
1975 · Grazia Filippini
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975 · Olghina Franchetti
The Kiss
1974 · Elizabeth Blixen
Tender Dracula
1974
Amore mio non farmi male
1974 · Sabina Foschini
Appassionata
1974 · Elisa Rutelli
Day for Night
1973 · Séverine
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972 · Natalia Trotsky
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972 · Pica Di Bernardone
Chronicle of a Homicide
1972 · Luisa Sola
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971 · Madame Sobieski
The Boat on the Grass
1971 · Catherine
The Love Mates
1970 · Eva
First Love
1970 · Mutter
Give Her the Moon
1970 · Madeleine de Lépine
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970 · Gabriella (uncredited)
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
1969 · Ornella
Il killer
1969
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968 · Lallo's Mother
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968 · Countess Bozo Bedoni
Black Sun
1966 · Maria
Juliet of the Spirits
1965 · Valentina
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
1965 · Self
The Possessed
1965 · Irma
Reporter’s Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini'
1965 · Self
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