Valentina Cortese

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-01-01 (96 years old)

Deathday

2019-07-10

Place of Birth

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

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 th...

Acting

1973

Day for Night

as Séverine

1971

1979

Ring of Darkness

as Elena Merrill

1972

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

as Pica Di Bernardone

1949

1972

1948

Les Misérables

as Fantine

1961

Barabbas

as Julia

1963

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

as Laura Craven-Torrani

1954

The Barefoot Contessa

as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini

1951

The House on Telegraph Hill

as Victoria Kowelska

1954

Jailbirds

as Luprandi's wife

1988

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

as Queen Ariadne / Violet

1949

Malaya

as Luana

1994

Sparrow

as Madre Superiora

1980

When Time Ran Out...

as Rose Valdez

1955

Le Amiche

as Nene

1965

1974

Appassionata

as Elisa Rutelli

1949

Black Magic

as Zoraida

1968

The Legend of Lylah Clare

as Countess Bozo Bedoni

1970

1956

The Rocket from Calabuch

as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela

1966

Black Sun

as Maria

1952

Secret People

as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins

1987

Blue Tango

as Rachele Cigno

1955

Magic Fire

as Mathilde Wesendonk

1978

Tanto va la gatta al lardo...

as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande

1970

First Love

as Mutter

1947

Il passatore

as Barbara

1991

Buster's Bedroom

as Serafina Tannenbaum

1953

1961

Square of Violence

as Erica Bernardi

1964

The Visit

as Mathilda Miller

1942

Quarta pagina

as Valentina

1962

Story of San Michele

as Eleonora Duse

1972

1968

Listen, Let's Make Love

as Lallo's Mother

1942

1974

The Kiss of Death

as Elizabeth Blixen

1949

The Glass Mountain

as Alida Morrosini

1955

Adriana Lecouvreur

as Adriana Lecouvreur

1948

1945

No One Comes Back

as Valentina

1943

Giorni felici

as Marianna

1958

1948

Crossroads of Passion

as Maria Pilar

1970

Give Her the Moon

as Madeleine de Lépine

1970

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

as Gabriella (uncredited)

1988

Facciaffittasi

as Gina Grandi

1977

Widows' Nest

as Dolores

1954

1975

Kidnap Syndicate

as Grazia Filippini

1976

1942

Soltanto un bacio

as Maria Renda / Luisa Renda

1987

Via Montenapoleone

as madre di Guido

2017

1950

Shadow of the Eagle

as Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova

1941

Primo amore

as Nerina Redi

1946

Rome: Free City

as La ragazza

1955

Il Conte Aquila

as Teresa Casati

1976

1945

Chi l'ha visto?

as Luisella

1993

La Classe américaine

as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)

1965

1953

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