Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
87
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 01, 1923 ( 96 years old )
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Also Known As
Valentina Cortesa
Valentina Cortese
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valentina Cortese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
La Nuit américaine
1973-05-24Le Bateau sur l'herbe
1971-04-16Un ombra nell'ombra
1979-10-29Fratello sole, sorella luna
1972-03-03Thieves' Highway
1949-09-20The Assassination of Trotsky
1972-04-20Caccia all'uomo
1948-01-10Barabbas
1961-12-23L'attore scomparso
1941-06-02La ragazza che sapeva troppo
1963-02-10