Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1923-01-01
Day of Death
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 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.
Filmography (89)
Diva!
2017Le ragazze di Milano
2007
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
2001
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
Sparrow
1994
La Classe américaine
1993
Buster's Bedroom
1991
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988Facciaffittasi
1988
Via Montenapoleone
1987
Blue Tango
1987
La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa
1981
When Time Ran Out...
1980
Ring of Darkness
1979
