Valentina Cortese
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923-01-01
- Died
- 2019-07-10
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Quanti sono i domani passati
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Film & TV
Acting · 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…
Known for
- Diva!2017
- Le ragazze di Milano — Self2007
- Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema — Self (archive footage)2001
- Federico Fellini's Autobiography — Self2000
- Sparrow — Madre Superiora1994
- La Classe américaine — The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)1993
- Buster's Bedroom — Serafina Tannenbaum1991
- I promessi sposi — Donna Prassede1989
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — Queen Ariadne / Violet1988
- Facciaffittasi — Gina Grandi1988
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 117
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease
· 2016 · cited 11,694x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,176x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,374x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,069x
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Key facts
- Born
- Valentina Elena Cortese Rossi di Coenzo , ( 1923-01-01 ) 1 January 1923, Milan , Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 10 July 2019 (2019-07-10) (aged 96), Milan, Italy
- Other name
- Valentina Cortesa
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1941–1993
- Spouses
- Richard Basehart ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1960 ) Carlo de Angeli ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 ; died 1998 )
- Children
- Jackie Basehart
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1923
- Died
- 10 July 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Valentina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Milan
- Place of death
- Milan
- Spouse
- Richard Basehart
- Child
- Jackie Basehart
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Italian
Article
Valentina Elena Cortese Rossi di Coenzo (1 January 1923 – 10 July 2019), sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa, was an Italian film and theatre actress. Her screen career spanned over 100 productions across over five decades, from 1941 until 1993. Cortese won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance in the film Day for Night (1973). In 2013, she received the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Over the course of her career, Cortese worked with many important Italian and international directors, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, François Truffaut, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Terry Gilliam. She was also active on stage, particularly in the company of Giorgio Strehler. Critic Morando Morandini described her as "one of the last divas of Italian theatre.... a mix of floral liberty, subdued decadence, belated D'Annunzio-ism and neurotic modern sensibility."