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Valentina Cortese

Valentina Cortese

Birthday: 1923-01-01 | Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

From 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1989
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

as    Queen Ariadne / Violet

1980
When Time Ran Out...

as    Rose Valdez

1979
Ring of Darkness

as    Elena Merrill

1976
The Big Operator

as    Witwe

1973
Brother Sun, Sister Moon

as    Pica Di Bernardone

1973
Day for Night

as    Severine

1972
The Assassination of Trotsky

as    Natalia Trotsky

1971
The Boat on the Grass

as    Catherine

1971
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

as    Madame Sobieski

1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare

as    Countess Bozo Bedoni

1966
Black Sun

as    Maria

1965
The Possessed

as    Irma

1965
Juliet of the Spirits

as    Valentina

1963
The Girl Who Knew Too Much

as    Laura Craven-Torrani

1962
Barabbas

as    Julia

1956
The Rocket from Calabuch

as    Eloisa, the Schoolmistress

1955
Magic Fire

as    Mathilde Wesendonk

1954
The Barefoot Contessa

as    Eleanora Torlato-Favrini

1952
Secret People

as    Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins

1951
The House on Telegraph Hill

as    Victoria Kowelska

1949
Malaya

as    Luana

1949
Thieves' Highway

as    Rica

1949
Black Magic

as    Zoraida