Valentina Cortese

Valentina Cortese

Actor (1923 - 2019)
8
Movies
83.8%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

Frequent Collaborators

François Truffaut (2)John Neville (1)Eric Idle (1)Sarah Polley (1)Oliver Reed (1)
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The ThumbScore for Valentina Cortese (83.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 8 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Valentina's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

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.

Born 1923-01-01 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Died 2019-07-10.

On ThumbScore, Valentina Cortese appears in 8 films with an average audience score of 83.8%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Valentina Cortese movie, ranked by audience score

Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Hoopla) · The Barefoot Contessa (Tubi, Hoopla).

The Girl Who Knew Too Much
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963
👍 87%
Juliet of the Spirits
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
👍 86%
Day for Night
Day for Night
1973
👍 85%
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
👍 84%
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
👍 84%
Thieves' Highway
Thieves' Highway
1949
👍 82%
The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa
1954
👍 81%
Barabbas
Barabbas
1961
👍 81%