Valentina Cortese

Known for ActingBorn 1923-01-01Died 2019-07-10Milan, Lombardy, Italy

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.Read more

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La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa

L'ebreo errante

Il corriere del re

Soltanto un bacio

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema

Facciaffittasi

Adriana Lecouvreur

Crossroads of Passion

Un americano in vacanza

Il bravo di Venezia

Primo amore

Diva!

Jesus of Nazareth

Il Conte Aquila

Day for Night

La passeggiata

La Classe américaine

Giorni felici

Quarta pagina

Orizzonte di sangue

Sparrow

Reporter’s Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini'

The Rocket from Calabuch

I promessi sposi

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel

Juliet of the Spirits

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Visit

Widows' Nest

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Thieves' Highway

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Nick the Sting

Barabbas

Kidnap Syndicate

Chi l'ha visto?

The Possessed

4 girls dream

Malaya

L'attore scomparso

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

Il matrimonio

The Glass Mountain

Le Amiche

The Barefoot Contessa

Lux Video Theatre