Valentina Cortese
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.
Acting
Movie
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
1988
Movie
Day for Night
as Séverine
1973
TV
Jesus of Nazareth
as Herodias
1977
Movie
Juliet of the Spirits
as Valentina
1965
Movie
The Barefoot Contessa
as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
1954
Movie
La Classe américaine
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Movie
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
as Laura Craven-Torrani
1963
Movie
Barabbas
as Julia
1961
Movie
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Pica Di Bernardone
1972
Movie
Thieves' Highway
as Rica
1949
Movie
Le Amiche
as Nene
1955
Movie
When Time Ran Out...
as Rose Valdez
1980
Movie
The House on Telegraph Hill
as Victoria Kowelska
1951
Movie
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Gabriella (uncredited)
1970
Movie
Appassionata
as Elisa Rutelli
1974
Movie
The Possessed
as Irma
1965
Movie
The Assassination of Trotsky
as Natalia Trotsky
1972
Movie
The Rocket from Calabuch
as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
1956
Movie
The Visit
as Mathilda Miller
1964
Movie
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
as Madame Sobieski
1971
Movie
Kidnap Syndicate
as Grazia Filippini
1975
Movie
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Countess Bozo Bedoni
1968
Movie
Sparrow
as Madre Superiora
1994
Movie
The Big Operator
as Witwe
1976