Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1923-01-01 (96 years old)
Deathday
2019-07-10
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Also known As
Valentina Cortesa
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...
1973
as Séverine
1971
as Catherine
1979
as Elena Merrill
1972
as Pica Di Bernardone
1949
as Rica
1972
as Natalia Trotsky
1948
as Fantine
1961
as Julia
1963
as Laura Craven-Torrani
1954
as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
1951
as Victoria Kowelska
1954
as Luprandi's wife
1988
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
1949
as Luana
1994
as Madre Superiora
1980
as Rose Valdez
1955
as Nene
1965
as Valentina
1974
as Elisa Rutelli
1949
as Zoraida
1968
as Countess Bozo Bedoni
1970
as Eva
1956
as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela
1966
as Maria
1952
as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
1987
as Rachele Cigno
1955
as Mathilde Wesendonk
1954
1978
as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
1970
as Mutter
1947
as Barbara
1946
as Maria
1991
as Serafina Tannenbaum
1953
as Lisa
1961
as Erica Bernardi
1964
as Mathilda Miller
1942
as Valentina
1962
as Eleonora Duse
1942
as Madge
1972
as Luisa Sola
1968
as Lallo's Mother
1942
as Lisabetta
1974
as Elizabeth Blixen
1949
as Alida Morrosini
1955
as Adriana Lecouvreur
1948
as Ester
1945
as Valentina
1943
as Marianna
1958
as Marisa
1948
as Cosetta
1948
as Maria Pilar
1970
as Madeleine de Lépine
1970
as Gabriella (uncredited)
1988
as Gina Grandi
1977
as Dolores
1954
as Vally
1941
as Alina
1975
as Grazia Filippini
1976
as Witwe
1975
as Olghina Franchetti
1943
1969
as Ornella
2000
1942
as Maria Renda / Luisa Renda
1987
as madre di Guido
2017
1974
1950
as Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
1965
1941
as Nerina Redi
1946
as La ragazza
1955
as Teresa Casati
1976
as Regina
1957
as Fanny
1945
as Luisella
1993
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
as Irma
1971
as Madame Sobieski
1953
1965
2007
as Self
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