Movies List
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

as Queen Ariadne / Violet

1989
When Time Ran Out...

as Rose Valdez

1980
Ring of Darkness

as Elena Merrill

1979
The Big Operator

as Witwe

1976
Day for Night

as Severine

1973
Brother Sun, Sister Moon

as Pica Di Bernardone

1973
The Assassination of Trotsky

as Natalia Trotsky

1972
The Boat on the Grass

as Catherine

1971
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

as Madame Sobieski

1971
The Legend of Lylah Clare

as Countess Bozo Bedoni

1968
Black Sun

as Maria

1966
Juliet of the Spirits

as Valentina

1965
The Possessed

as Irma

1965
The Girl Who Knew Too Much

as Laura Craven-Torrani

1963
Barabbas

as Julia

1962
The Rocket from Calabuch

as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela

1956
Magic Fire

as Mathilde Wesendonk

1955
The Barefoot Contessa

as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini

1954
Secret People

as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins

1952
The House on Telegraph Hill

as Victoria Kowelska

1951
Thieves' Highway

as Rica

1949
Malaya

as Luana

1949
Black Magic

as Zoraida

1949
Valentina Cortese Valentina Cortese

Birthday

1923-01-01

Place of Birth

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Biography

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.
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