Valentina Cortese
Birthday: 1923-01-01 | Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, ItalyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valentina Cortese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Self
as Madre Superiora
as Serafina Tannenbaum
as Donna Prassede
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
as Rachele Cigno
as madre di Guido
as Rose Valdez
as Elena Merrill
as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
as Herodius
as Witwe
as Grazia Filippini
as Olghina Franchetti
as Elisa Rutelli
as Elizabeth Blixen
as Pica Di Bernardone
as Severine
as Luisa Sola
as Natalia Trotsky
as Catherine
as Madame Sobieski
as Madeleine de Lépine
as Mutter
