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 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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1923-01-01
Place of birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Cast
Day for Night
1973
7.80
The Boat on the Grass
1971
4.70
Ring of Darkness
1979
5.10
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
7.00
Thieves' Highway
1949
7.27
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972
5.10
Les Misérables
1948
6.00
Barabbas
1961
6.89
L'attore scomparso
1941
0.00
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963
7.00
The Barefoot Contessa
1954
6.80
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
6.30
Jailbirds
1954
4.00
Malaya
1949
6.50
Sparrow
1994
7.40
When Time Ran Out...
1980
5.30
Le Amiche
1955
6.80
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
7.30
Appassionata
1974
5.70
Black Magic
1949
6.30
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
5.90
The Love Mates
1970
4.80
The Rocket from Calabuch
1956
7.45
Black Sun
1966
4.00
Secret People
1952
6.30
Blue Tango
1987
2.00
Magic Fire
1955
4.80
Il matrimonio
1954
6.50
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975
5.30
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978
4.80
Amore mio non farmi male
1974
4.70
First Love
1970
5.20
Il passatore
1947
4.70
Un americano in vacanza
1946
0.00
Buster's Bedroom
1991
3.50
La passeggiata
1953
0.00
Square of Violence
1961
6.30
The Visit
1964
7.00
Quarta pagina
1942
0.00
Story of San Michele
1962
4.00
La regina di Navarra
1942
0.00
Girl of the Golden West
1942
6.00
Orizzonte di sangue
1942
0.00
Chronicle of a Homicide
1972
5.60
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968
4.80
The Jester's Supper
1942
6.10
The Kiss of Death
1974
2.00
The Glass Mountain
1949
6.00
Adriana Lecouvreur
1955
0.00
L'ebreo errante
1948
0.00
No One Comes Back
1945
5.00
Giorni felici
1943
0.00
Love and Troubles
1958
5.94
Crossroads of Passion
1948
0.00
Give Her the Moon
1970
5.40
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
6.90
Facciaffittasi
1988
0.00
Widows' Nest
1977
0.00
Angels of Darkness
1954
3.00
Il bravo di Venezia
1941
0.00
Kidnap Syndicate
1975
6.70
The Big Operator
1976
4.50
4 girls dream
1943
0.00
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
1969
5.40
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
6.30
Soltanto un bacio
1942
0.00
Via Montenapoleone
1987
3.57
Diva!
2017
8.20
Tender Dracula
1974
4.13
Il corriere del re
1947
0.00
Shadow of the Eagle
1950
6.30
Primo amore
1941
0.00
Rome: Free City
1946
5.33
Il Conte Aquila
1955
0.00
Nick the Sting
1976
6.70
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957
6.80
Chi l'ha visto?
1945
0.00
La Classe américaine
1993
7.61
The Possessed
1965
6.80
Lulù
1953
0.00
Le ragazze di Milano
2007
0.00