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