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Valentina Cortese

1923 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valentina Cortese is the 1,093rd most popular actor (up from 1,115th in 2019), the 1,579th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,667th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Italian Actor.

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Among actors, Valentina Cortese ranks 1,093 out of 13,578. Before her are John Lone, Richard Jenkins, Herbert Lom, George Takei, Dorothy Malone, and James Pickens Jr.. After her are Conrad Bain, Marcheline Bertrand, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Adam Driver, Frances Fisher, and Diane Lane.

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Among people born in 1923, Valentina Cortese ranks 78. Before her are Walter M. Miller Jr., Norman Mailer, Edgar F. Codd, Chuck Yeager, Hwang Jang-yop, and Frederick Herzberg. After her are Conrad Bain, Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Lloyd Shapley, Ousmane Sembène, Diane Arbus, and Glynis Johns. Among people deceased in 2019, Valentina Cortese ranks 89. Before her are Michel Serres, Valery Bykovsky, André Previn, Matti Nykänen, Max Wright, and Dragoslav Šekularac. After her are Felice Gimondi, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Mark Hollis, Vladimir Bukovsky, and William Levada.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Valentina Cortese ranks 1,579 out of 5,161. Before her are Gian Maria Visconti (1388), Licio Gelli (1919), Mondino de Luzzi (1275), Matthias Gallas (1584), Sebastiano Ricci (1659), and Alberto Zaccheroni (1953). After her are Stefano Pioli (1965), Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675), Sabrina Salerno (1968), Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena (1562), James III of Majorca (1315), and Rose of Viterbo (1233).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Valentina Cortese ranks 40. Before her are Franco Columbu (1941), Adolfo Celi (1922), Gabriele Ferzetti (1925), Pier Angeli (1932), Anita Pallenberg (1942), and Amy Adams (1974). After her are Lea Massari (1933), Paolo Villaggio (1932), Nino Manfredi (1921), Sergio Castellitto (1953), Pietro Germi (1914), and Daniela Bianchi (1942).

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