Valentina Cortese
Actor
- Born
- January 1, 1923 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Died
- July 10, 2019 (age 96)
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.
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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
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
December 7, 1988
Day for Night
May 24, 1973
Juliet of the Spirits
October 22, 1965
The Barefoot Contessa
September 29, 1954
La Classe américaine
December 31, 1993
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
February 10, 1963
Barabbas
December 23, 1961
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
March 3, 1972
Thieves' Highway
September 20, 1949
Le Amiche
November 18, 1955
When Time Ran Out...
March 28, 1980
The House on Telegraph Hill
May 12, 1951
Acting91
- 2017Diva! as Self
- 2007Le ragazze di Milano as Self
- 2001Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2000Federico Fellini's Autobiography as Self
- 1994Sparrow as Madre Superiora
- 1993La Classe américaine as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1991Buster's Bedroom as Serafina Tannenbaum
- 1988The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as Queen Ariadne / Violet
- 1988Young Toscanini as Comparsa (uncredited)
- 1988