Cast
Valentina Cortese
Acting
Cast
Valentina Cortese
Known for
Acting
Born
1923-01-01
From
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died
2019-07-10
Also known as Valentina Cortesa
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.
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5.6
MOVIE1974
Appassionata
as Elisa Rutelli
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7.0
MOVIE1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
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5.7
MOVIE1970
First Love
as Mutter
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7.8
MOVIE1973
Day for Night
as SĂ©verine
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7.5
MOVIE1956
The Rocket from Calabuch
as EloĂsa, la maestra de escuela
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6.7
MOVIE1954
The Barefoot Contessa
as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
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6.4
MOVIE1949
Black Magic
as Zoraida
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6.9
MOVIE1961
Barabbas
as Julia
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4.6
MOVIE1970
The Love Mates
as Eva
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7.6
MOVIE1993
La Classe américaine
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
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6.0
MOVIE1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Countess Bozo Bedoni
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7.2
MOVIE1965
Juliet of the Spirits
as Valentina
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6.9
MOVIE1949
Malaya
as Luana
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7.4
MOVIE1994
Sparrow
as Madre Superiora
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5.3
MOVIE1972
The Assassination of Trotsky
as Natalia Trotsky
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6.1
MOVIE1975
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Olghina Franchetti
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10.0
MOVIE1981
La Ferdinanda. Sonate fĂŒr eine Medici-Villa
as Caterina de Dominicis
MOVIE2007
Le ragazze di Milano
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1972
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Pica Di Bernardone
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6.9
MOVIE1970
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Gabriella (uncredited)
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5.4
MOVIE1980
When Time Ran Out...
as Rose Valdez
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6.9
MOVIE1963
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
as Laura Craven-Torrani
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7.2
MOVIE1964
The Visit
as Mathilda Miller
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6.7
MOVIE1975
Kidnap Syndicate
as Grazia Filippini
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5.4
MOVIE1946
Rome: Free City
as La ragazza
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5.7
MOVIE1970
Give Her the Moon
as Madeleine de LĂ©pine
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4.9
MOVIE1955
Magic Fire
as Mathilde Wesendonk
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5.3
MOVIE1971
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
as Madame Sobieski
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4.8
MOVIE1979
Ring of Darkness
as Elena Merrill
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6.8
MOVIE1965
The Possessed
as Irma
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4.8
MOVIE1966
Black Sun
as Maria
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6.4
MOVIE1952
Secret People
as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
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6.7
MOVIE1955
Le Amiche
as Nene
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7.2
MOVIE1949
Thieves' Highway
as Rica
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4.6
MOVIE1976
The Big Operator
as Witwe
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7.5
MOVIE1965
Reporterâs Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini'
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1977
Widows' Nest
as Dolores
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10.0
MOVIE1948
L'ebreo errante
as Ester
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6.3
MOVIE1958
Love and Troubles
as Marisa
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5.1
MOVIE1971
The Boat on the Grass
as Catherine
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4.3
MOVIE1991
Buster's Bedroom
as Serafina Tannenbaum
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7.3
MOVIE1957
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
as Fanny
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6.0
MOVIE1948
Les Misérables
as Fantine
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6.8
MOVIE1976
Nick the Sting
as Regina
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3.8
MOVIE1987
Via Montenapoleone
as madre di Guido
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4.2
MOVIE1974
Tender Dracula
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6.0
MOVIE1987
Blue Tango
as Rachele Cigno
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6.5
MOVIE1942
Girl of the Golden West
as Madge
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6.4
MOVIE1951
The House on Telegraph Hill
as Victoria Kowelska
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5.5
MOVIE1954
Jailbirds
as Luprandi's wife
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4.5
MOVIE1968
Listen, Let's Make Love
as Lallo's Mother
MOVIE1953
LulĂč
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6.0
MOVIE1947
Il passatore
as Barbara
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3.5
MOVIE1974
The Kiss
as Elizabeth Blixen
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7.0
MOVIE1943
4 girls dream
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5.7
MOVIE1969
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
as Ornella
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5.8
MOVIE1978
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
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8.0
MOVIE1953
La passeggiata
as Lisa
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9.0
MOVIE1946
Un americano in vacanza
as Maria
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6.5
MOVIE1950
Shadow of the Eagle
as Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
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6.8
MOVIE1954
Il matrimonio
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8.0
MOVIE1942
Quarta pagina
as Valentina
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5.1
MOVIE1974
Amore mio non farmi male
as Sabina Foschini
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9.0
MOVIE1948
Crossroads of Passion
as Maria Pilar
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6.5
MOVIE1962
Story of San Michele
as Eleonora Duse
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8.2
MOVIE2017
Diva!
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5.8
MOVIE1975
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
as Sabina Foschini
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9.0
MOVIE1955
Adriana Lecouvreur
as Adriana Lecouvreur
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8.0
MOVIE1955
Il Conte Aquila
as Teresa Casati
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6.4
MOVIE1961
Square of Violence
as Erica Bernardi
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6.0
MOVIE1945
No One Comes Back
as Valentina
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10.0
MOVIE1942
Soltanto un bacio
as Maria Renda / Luisa Renda
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6.3
MOVIE1965
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1945
Chi l'ha visto?
as Luisella
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5.5
MOVIE1972
Chronicle of a Homicide
as Luisa Sola
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3.6
MOVIE1954
Angels of Darkness
as Vally
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9.0
MOVIE1941
Primo amore
as Nerina Redi
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6.1
MOVIE1942
The Jester's Supper
as Lisabetta
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10.0
MOVIE1947
Il corriere del re
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6.8
MOVIE1949
The Glass Mountain
as Alida Morrosini
MOVIE1942
La regina di Navarra
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9.0
MOVIE1941
Il bravo di Venezia
as Alina
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6.0
MOVIE1948
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
as Cosetta
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6.4
MOVIE2000
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as Self
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9.0
MOVIE1988
Facciaffittasi
as Gina Grandi
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7.0
MOVIE1941
L'attore scomparso
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8.0
MOVIE1942
Orizzonte di sangue
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9.0
MOVIE2001
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
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8.0
MOVIE1943
Giorni felici
as Marianna