Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/1/1923
Place of Birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Also Known As
Valentina Cortesa
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...
Known For
Appassionata
as Elisa Rutelli
Barabbas
as Julia
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
as Madame Sobieski
Secret People
as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins
The Visit
as Mathilda Miller
Juliet of the Spirits
as Valentina
Blue Tango
as Rachele Cigno
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Olghina Franchetti
Quarta pagina
as Valentina
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
as Cosetta
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Pica Di Bernardone
La Classe américaine
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Possessed
as Irma
Le Amiche
as Nene
Diva!
Unknown Role
When Time Ran Out...
as Rose Valdez
The Assassination of Trotsky
as Natalia Trotsky
Day for Night
as Séverine
Malaya
as Luana
The House on Telegraph Hill
as Victoria Kowelska