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Acting

Valentina Cortese

Career: Active from 1941 to 1994, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 41
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: Day for Night
90/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

BAFTA Awards · Best Supporting Actress
1974 · Won
Day for Night
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Supporting Role
1975 · Nominated · 47th Academy Awards
Day for Night
Source: Wikidata

Characters

1

The characters Valentina Cortese played, best-known titles first.

Valentina Cortese as donna Prassede

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 35 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Valentina Cortese Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2
Violence
3.3, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Political Intrigue 5
Italian Cinema 5
Historical Setting 5
Character Study 4
Historical Drama 4
Social Commentary 4
Revenge 3
Classic Cinema 3
Melancholy 3
Class Conflict 3
Moral Ambiguity 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

84

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

3 titles · average score 73

Sparrow

70

as Madre Superiora

La Classe américaine

76

as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)

Buster's Bedroom

as Serafina Tannenbaum

1980s

10 titles · average score 55

I promessi sposi

67

TV show · as Donna Prassede

I promessi sposi

63

as Prassede

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

77

as Queen Ariadne / Violet

Young Toscanini

64

as Comparsa (uncredited)

as Gina Grandi

TV show · as Gina Grandi

Via Montenapoleone

40

as madre di Guido

Blue Tango

as Rachele Cigno

La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa

as Caterina de Dominicis

When Time Ran Out...

23

as Rose Valdez

1970s

22 titles · average score 60

Ring of Darkness

46

as Elena Merrill

Widows' Nest

as Dolores

Son tornate a fiorire le rose

as Sabina Foschini

Appassionata

59

as Elisa Rutelli

Amore mio non farmi male

as Sabina Foschini

Day for Night

90

as Séverine

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

57

as Pica Di Bernardone

Chronicle of a Homicide

59

as Luisa Sola

The Assassination of Trotsky

48

as Natalia Trotsky

Give Her the Moon

60

as Madeleine de Lépine

First Love

59

as Mutter

The Love Mates

49

as Eva

1960s

13 titles · average score 71

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

as Ornella

The Legend of Lylah Clare

55

as Countess Bozo Bedoni

Listen, Let's Make Love

as Lallo's Mother

Black Sun

as Maria

The Possessed

69

as Irma

Juliet of the Spirits

79

as Valentina

I grandi camaleonti

TV show · as Giuseppina Bonaparte

The Visit

77

as Mathilda Miller

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

69

as Laura Craven-Torrani

Story of San Michele

as Eleonora Duse

Square of Violence

as Erica Bernardi

Barabbas

79

as Julia

1950s

16 titles · average score 69

Love and Troubles

as Marisa

The Rocket from Calabuch

76

as Eloísa, la maestra de escuela

Le Amiche

77

as Nene

Magic Fire

54

as Mathilde Wesendonk

Il Conte Aquila

as Teresa Casati

The Barefoot Contessa

77

as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini

Angels of Darkness

as Vally

La passeggiata

as Lisa

Secret People

62

as Maria Brentano / Brent / Lena Collins

The House on Telegraph Hill

65

as Victoria Kowelska

Shadow of the Eagle

as Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova

Lux Video Theatre

TV show · as Emilie Gallatin

1940s

20 titles · average score 66

Thieves' Highway

87

as Rica

Malaya

60

as Luana

Black Magic

65

as Zoraida

The Glass Mountain

66

as Alida Morrosini

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

as Cosetta

Les Misérables

64

as Fantine

L'ebreo errante

as Ester

Crossroads of Passion

as Maria Pilar

Il passatore

as Barbara

Rome: Free City

59

as La ragazza

Un americano in vacanza

as Maria

Quarta pagina

as Valentina