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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Milan, Lombardy, Italy, 1923-01-01

Died: 2019-07-10

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	L'attore scomparso		0
2	1941	Il bravo di Venezia	Alina	0
3	1941	Primo amore	Nerina Redi	0
4	1942	Orizzonte di sangue		0
5	1942	Girl of the Golden West	Madge	60
6	1942	The Jester's Supper	Lisabetta	61
7	1942	La regina di Navarra		0
8	1942	Soltanto un bacio	Maria Renda / Luisa Renda	0
9	1942	Quarta pagina	Valentina	0
10	1943	Giorni felici	Marianna	0
11	1943	4 girls dream		0
12	1945	No One Comes Back	Valentina	50
13	1945	Chi l'ha visto?	Luisella	0
14	1946	Un americano in vacanza	Maria	0
15	1946	Rome: Free City	La ragazza	53
16	1947	Il passatore	Barbara	47
17	1947	Il corriere del re		0
18	1948	Les Misérables	Fantine	60
19	1948	Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris	Cosetta	60
20	1948	L'ebreo errante	Ester	0
21	1948	Crossroads of Passion	Maria Pilar	0
22	1949	The Glass Mountain	Alida Morrosini	60
23	1949	Black Magic	Zoraida	63
24	1949	Thieves' Highway	Rica	73
25	1949	Malaya	Luana	65
26	1950	Shadow of the Eagle	Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova	63
27	1951	The House on Telegraph Hill	Victoria Kowelska	63
28	1952	Secret People	Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins	63
29	1953	La passeggiata	Lisa	0
30	1953	Lulù		0
31	1954	Angels of Darkness	Vally	30
32	1954	Il matrimonio		65
33	1954	Jailbirds	Luprandi's wife	40
34	1954	The Barefoot Contessa	Eleanora Torlato-Favrini	68
35	1955	Magic Fire	Mathilde Wesendonk	48
36	1955	Adriana Lecouvreur	Adriana Lecouvreur	0
37	1955	Il Conte Aquila	Teresa Casati	0
38	1955	Le Amiche	Nene	68
39	1956	The Rocket from Calabuch	Eloísa, la maestra de escuela	75
40	1957	Kean: Genius or Scoundrel	Fanny	68
41	1958	Love and Troubles	Marisa	59
42	1961	Square of Violence	Erica Bernardi	63
43	1961	Barabbas	Julia	69
44	1962	Story of San Michele	Eleonora Duse	40
45	1963	The Girl Who Knew Too Much	Laura Craven-Torrani	70
46	1964	The Visit	Mathilda Miller	70
47	1965	Reporter’s Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini'	Self	75
48	1965	The Possessed	Irma	68
49	1965	Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials	Self	62
50	1965	Juliet of the Spirits	Valentina	72
51	1966	Black Sun	Maria	40
52	1968	The Legend of Lylah Clare	Countess Bozo Bedoni	59
53	1968	Listen, Let's Make Love	Lallo's Mother	48
54	1969	Oh, Grandmother's Dead	Ornella	54
55	1970	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Gabriella (uncredited)	69
56	1970	Give Her the Moon	Madeleine de Lépine	54
57	1970	First Love	Mutter	52
58	1970	The Love Mates	Eva	48
59	1971	The Boat on the Grass	Catherine	47
60	1971	The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire	Madame Sobieski	53
61	1972	Chronicle of a Homicide	Luisa Sola	56
62	1972	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	Pica Di Bernardone	70
63	1972	The Assassination of Trotsky	Natalia Trotsky	52
64	1973	Day for Night	Séverine	78
65	1974	Appassionata	Elisa Rutelli	57
66	1974	Amore mio non farmi male		47
67	1974	Tender Dracula		41
68	1974	The Kiss of Death	Elizabeth Blixen	20
69	1975	Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza	Olghina Franchetti	60
70	1975	Kidnap Syndicate	Grazia Filippini	67
71	1975	Son tornate a fiorire le rose		53
72	1976	Nick the Sting	Regina	67
73	1976	The Big Operator	Witwe	45
74	1977	Widows' Nest	Dolores	0
75	1978	Tanto va la gatta al lardo...	Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande	48
76	1979	Ring of Darkness	Elena Merrill	51
77	1980	When Time Ran Out...	Rose Valdez	53
78	1987	Blue Tango	Rachele Cigno	20
79	1987	Via Montenapoleone	madre di Guido	36
80	1988	Facciaffittasi	Gina Grandi	0
81	1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Queen Ariadne / Violet	70
82	1991	Buster's Bedroom	Serafina Tannenbaum	35
83	1993	La Classe américaine	The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)	76
84	1994	Sparrow	Madre Superiora	74
85	2000	Federico Fellini's Autobiography	Self	63
86	2007	Le ragazze di Milano	Self	0
87	2017	Diva!		82

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Emilie Gallatin	63
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Dr. Bruni	73
3	1969	Il killer		0
4	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Herodias	78
5	1989	I promessi sposi	Donna Prassede	64