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