Valentina Cortese
Acting
Born 1923-01-01
Died 2019-07-10
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
97 credits
Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1975 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Day for Night
Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress 1 won
- 1956 Best Leading Actress Won Le Amiche
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Jesus of Nazareth
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Lux Video Theatre
Appassionata
Barabbas
Day for Night
The Barefoot Contessa
I promessi sposi
First Love
When Time Ran Out...
Juliet of the Spirits
Black Magic
The Visit
La Classe américaine
Malaya
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Love Mates
The Rocket from Calabuch
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Thieves' Highway
The House on Telegraph Hill
The Assassination of Trotsky
Give Her the Moon
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Le Amiche
The Legend of Lylah Clare
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Rome: Free City
Sparrow
Kidnap Syndicate
The Possessed
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Ring of Darkness
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Magic Fire
Love and Troubles
Facciaffittasi
Angels of Darkness
The Kiss
La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa
Widows' Nest
Buster's Bedroom
Nick the Sting
Via Montenapoleone
Young Toscanini
I grandi camaleonti
Shadow of the Eagle
Girl of the Golden West
Secret People
Listen, Let's Make Love
The Big Operator
Chi l'ha visto?
Les Misérables
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
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Crossroads of Passion
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