Appassionata
1974 · Elisa Rutelli
Day for Night
1973 · Séverine
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972 · Natalia Trotsky
Juliet of the Spirits
1965 · Valentina
The Possessed
1965 · Irma
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963 · Laura Craven-Torrani
Le Amiche
1955 · Nene
The Barefoot Contessa
1954 · Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951 · Victoria Kowelska
Thieves' Highway
1949 · Rica
January 1, 1923 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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.
