Valentina Cortese Overview

Biography

A glamorous presence in European and American films from the postwar period until the early 1990s, Oscar-nominated actress Valentina Cortese played both sultry and downtrodded women in films for such acclaimed directors as Orson Welles, Jules Dassin, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francois Truffaut. Born January 1, 1923 in Milan, Italy, she was the daughter of a single mother who left her...