Valentina Cortese
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
Appassionata (1974)
as Elisa Rutelli
Barabbas (1961)
as Julia
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
Day for Night (1973)
as Séverine
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
as Valentina
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
as Gabriella (uncredited)
First Love (1970)
as Mutter
Black Magic (1949)
as Zoraida
The Visit (1964)
as Mathilda Miller
Thieves' Highway (1949)
as Rica
La Classe américaine (1993)
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
as Laura Craven-Torrani
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
as Pica Di Bernardone
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
as Rose Valdez
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
as Countess Bozo Bedoni
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
as Victoria Kowelska
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
as Natalia Trotsky
The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
Malaya (1949)
as Luana
The Love Mates (1970)
as Eva
Sparrow (1994)
as Madre Superiora
Give Her the Moon (1970)
as Madeleine de Lépine
Young Toscanini (1988)
as Comparsa (uncredited)
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza (1975)
as Olghina Franchetti
Secret People (1952)
as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
as Grazia Filippini
Le Amiche (1955)
as Nene
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)
as Fanny
Ring of Darkness (1979)
as Elena Merrill
Rome: Free City (1946)
as La ragazza
The Possessed (1965)
as Irma
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
as Madame Sobieski
Angels of Darkness (1954)
as Vally
Magic Fire (1955)
as Mathilde Wesendonk
Buster's Bedroom (1991)
as Serafina Tannenbaum
La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1981)
as Caterina de Dominicis
Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
as Luisa Sola
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris (1948)
as Cosetta
Love and Troubles (1958)
as Marisa
The Jester's Supper (1942)
as Lisabetta
The Boat on the Grass (1971)
as Catherine
Le ragazze di Milano (2007)
as Self
Via Montenapoleone (1987)
as madre di Guido
Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969)
as Ornella
The Kiss (1974)
as Elizabeth Blixen
The Big Operator (1976)
as Witwe
Story of San Michele (1962)
as Eleonora Duse
Tender Dracula (1974)
Actor
Federico Fellini's Autobiography (2000)
as Self
Les Misérables (1948)
as Fantine
L'ebreo errante (1948)
as Ester
Widows' Nest (1977)
as Dolores
Listen, Let's Make Love (1968)
as Lallo's Mother
Il matrimonio (1954)
Actor
Primo amore (1941)
as Nerina Redi
Black Sun (1966)
as Maria
The Glass Mountain (1949)
as Alida Morrosini
Nick the Sting (1976)
as Regina
Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
as Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
Diva! (2017)
Actor
Blue Tango (1987)
as Rachele Cigno
Tanto va la gatta al lardo... (1978)
as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
Amore mio non farmi male (1974)
as Sabina Foschini
Quarta pagina (1942)
as Valentina
La passeggiata (1953)
as Lisa
Il passatore (1947)
as Barbara
Crossroads of Passion (1948)
as Maria Pilar
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials (1965)
as Self
Reporter’s Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini' (1965)
as Self
Un americano in vacanza (1946)
as Maria
Girl of the Golden West (1942)
as Madge
Lulù (1953)
Actor
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Adriana Lecouvreur (1955)
as Adriana Lecouvreur
4 girls dream (1943)
Actor
Jailbirds (1954)
as Luprandi's wife
Il Conte Aquila (1955)
as Teresa Casati
Il bravo di Venezia (1941)
as Alina
No One Comes Back (1945)
as Valentina
Chi l'ha visto? (1945)
as Luisella
Square of Violence (1961)
as Erica Bernardi
La regina di Navarra (1942)
Actor
Il corriere del re (1947)
Actor
Son tornate a fiorire le rose (1975)
as Sabina Foschini
Giorni felici (1943)
as Marianna
Soltanto un bacio (1942)
as Maria Renda / Luisa Renda
L'attore scomparso (1941)
Actor
Facciaffittasi (1988)
as Gina Grandi
Orizzonte di sangue (1942)
Actor