Valentina Cortese

Gender: Female
Born: 1st January 1923 (currently 89 years old)
Nationality: Italy
TV programs: Jesus of Nazareth
Movies: Day for Night, Juliet of the Spirits, Thieves' Highway, Malaya, The Secret People, Le Bateau sur l'herbe, Jesus of Nazareth, Le amiche, Calabuch, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Black Magic, The Assassination of Trotsky, The House on Telegraph Hill, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Roma Citta Libera, A Yank in Rome, Lulu, Magic Fire, The Barefoot Contessa, Square of Violence, The Legend of Lylah Clare, Barabbas, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, The Glass Mountain, Ring of Darkness, When Time Ran Out, Sparrow, Listen, Let's Make Love, La ragazza che sapeva troppo

Valentina Cortese (born 1 January 1923) is an Italian 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, the actor Jackie Basehart, 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.

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