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.
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
1969
Il bravo di Venezia
1941
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
Sparrow
1994
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975
Ring of Darkness
1979
Amore mio non farmi male
1974
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971
Chronicle of a Homicide
1972
Appassionata
1974
The Kiss
1974
The Visit
1964
Il Conte Aquila
1955
Un americano in vacanza
1946
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
Via Montenapoleone
1987
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978
Le Amiche
1955
Blue Tango
1987
L'attore scomparso
1941
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
2001
The Boat on the Grass
1971
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
When Time Ran Out...
1980
Barabbas
1961
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
La Classe américaine
1993
Story of San Michele
1962
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
Quarta pagina
1942
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
Jailbirds
1954
Tender Dracula
1974
Malaya
1949