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