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