Valentina Cortese
Acting
🎂 1923-01-01
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.
Cast credits(92)
Herodias
1977
Donna Prassede
1989
Emilie Gallatin
1950
1969
Dr. Bruni
1951
Queen Ariadne / Violet
1988
Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
1954
Elisa Rutelli
1974
Julia
1961
Séverine
1973
Natalia Trotsky
1972
Pica Di Bernardone
1972
Rica
1949
Zoraida
1949
Valentina
1965
Rose Valdez
1980
Victoria Kowelska
1951
Gabriella (uncredited)
1970
Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
1952
Regina
1976
Madame Sobieski
1971
Laura Craven-Torrani
1963
Madre Superiora
1994
Catherine
1971
Countess Bozo Bedoni
1968
Grazia Filippini
1975
Fantine
1948
Mathilda Miller
1964
The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Luana
1949
Elena Merrill
1979
Luisa Sola
1972
Mutter
1970
1974
Alida Morrosini
1949
La ragazza
1946
Irma
1965
Valentina
1942
Lallo's Mother
1968
Nene
1955
Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
1978
Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
1956
Self
2007
Fanny
1957
Marianna
1943
Nerina Redi
1941
madre di Guido
1987
Witwe
1976
Madge
1942
Ornella
1969
Barbara
1947
Olghina Franchetti
1975
Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
1950
Serafina Tannenbaum
1991
Eva
1970
Cosetta
1948
1974
Luprandi's wife
1954
1954
Self
2000
1975
Mathilde Wesendonk
1955
Elizabeth Blixen
1974
Eleonora Duse
1962
Madeleine de Lépine
1970
Valentina
1945
Maria Pilar
1948
Lisa
1953
Lisabetta
1942
Maria
1946
Ester
1948
Dolores
1977
Maria
1966
Vally
1954
Teresa Casati
1955
1941
Luisella
1945
1943
Adriana Lecouvreur
1955
2017
Erica Bernardi
1961
Self
1965
1953
Marisa
1958
Self
1965
1942
Rachele Cigno
1987
Gina Grandi
1988
1947
Maria Renda / Luisa Renda
1942
Alina
1941
1942