Personal Info
Valentina Cortesa
Valentina Cortese
Acting
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Diva!
Le ragazze di Milano
as Self
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as Self
Sparrow
as Madre Superiora
La Classe américaine
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buster's Bedroom
as Serafina Tannenbaum
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
Facciaffittasi
as Gina Grandi
Blue Tango
as Rachele Cigno
