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Valentina Cortese
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.
As actor
Diva!
Le ragazze di Milano
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Sparrow
La Classe américaine
Buster's Bedroom
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Facciaffittasi
Blue Tango
Via Montenapoleone
La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa
When Time Ran Out...
Ring of Darkness
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Widows' Nest
The Big Operator
Nick the Sting
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
Kidnap Syndicate
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Appassionata
Amore mio non farmi male
The Kiss
Tender Dracula
Day for Night
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
The Assassination of Trotsky
Chronicle of a Homicide
The Boat on the Grass