Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1923
Died
Jul 10, 2019
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Credits
97 titles
Valentina Cortese
Biography
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
Filmography
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
I promessi sposi
Donna Prassede
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Queen Ariadne / Violet
Young Toscanini
Comparsa (uncredited)
Facciaffittasi
Gina Grandi
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
Jesus of Nazareth
Herodias
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
Il killer
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
I grandi camaleonti
Giuseppina Bonaparte
The Visit
Mathilda Miller