Isabella Rossellini

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Birth Name: Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini

Age: 72, born 18 June 1952

Country of origin: Italy

Height: 5' 8"

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Description: Isabella Rossellini was raised in Paris and Rome. At the age of 19, she moved to New York, where she became a translator and later a reporter for RAI-Italian Television. Her popular segments led to appearances as the New York correspondent for the weekly Italian comedy show The Other Sunday, with Roberto Benigni. Her modeling career began when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue and by Bill King for American Vogue. She has since worked with the industry's most distinguished photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson and Eve Arnold. She has appeare Isabella Rossellini was raised in Paris and Rome. At the age of 19, she moved to New York, where she became a translator and later a reporter for RAI-Italian Television. Her popular segments led to appearances as the New York correspondent for the weekly Italian comedy show The Other Sunday, with Roberto Benigni.

Her modeling career began when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue and by Bill King for American Vogue. She has since worked with the industry's most distinguished photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson and Eve Arnold. She has appeared on the cover of such magazines as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Bazaar and Vanity Fair. An exhibition of photographs of Rossellini, Portrait of a Woman was held in March 1988 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

Rossellini made her cinematic debut in 1979 in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Il Prato (The Meadow). Her American film debut was opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines in Taylor Hackford's White Knights. In 1986, she starred opposite Dennis Hopper as Dorothy Vallens, the tortured lounge singer, in David Lynch's haunting and controversial Blue Velvet. She recently starred in The Feast of the Goat, Luis Llosa's screen adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel which screened at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival and HD Net Film's urban drama All Fall Down, opposite Anthony LaPaglia. In 2003, Rossellini starred in Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music In the World, an eccentric tale about a Depression-era contest to find the world's saddest music. She also starred in Dylan Kidd's critically acclaimed film, Roger Dodger opposite Campbell Scott. The previous year, she appeared in Empire, alongside John Leguizamo and Peter Sarsgaard.

Her other film credits include Cousins, Zelly and Me, Wild at Heart, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Wyatt Earp, Big Night, The Imposters and The Funeral. Her portrait of the Jewish Hasidic mother in Left Luggage, directed by Jeroen Krabbe, won a special award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998.

Rossellini most recently appeared on television in several episodes of ABC's Alias. She also starred in the television movie Monte Walsh for TNT opposite Tom Selleck and in Napoleon for A&E opposite Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich and Sophia Loren. Her other television credits include Legend of Earthsea, Merlin, Don Quixote, The Odyssey, The Frightening Frammis, The Gift, Crime of the Century (Golden Globe nomination) and on the series Chicago Hope (Emmy nomination).

On stage, she made her American theater debut in Spring 2004 in Terrence McNally's off-Broadway play The Stendhal Syndrome.

In 1997, the George Eastman House (USA) honored Rossellini for her work in preserving the films of her parents, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. ... (more)

Tags: European (3), Model (3), Beautiful (3), Italian (2), Female (2), Actress (2), Gemini (2), Famous Father (1), Dorothy Vallens (1), Cheekbones (1), Famous Mother (1), Born In 1952 (1), Born In 1950s (1), Famous Parents (1), Italian Model (1), Raven Haired (1), Oscar Nominated Actress (1), Beautiful Resembles Her Beautiful Mother Ingrid (1), The Simpsons Guest (1)

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1. My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)

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1. Green Porno (2008)

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2. Seduce Me

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3. Mammas (2013)

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1. Green Porno (2008)

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2. Seduce Me

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3. Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live

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1. In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini with DV

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2. Ingrid Bergman: a Life in Pictures 1915-1982: Stockholm, Berlin, Hollywood, Rome, New York, Paris, L

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3. Some of Me

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1. Isabella Rossellini - My Wild Life (2010)

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2. Green Porno: Bee (2008)

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3. Animals Distract Me (2011)

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1. Blue Velvet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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"Movies:• The Sky Is Falling (2000) : Shot to death by German troops. • Chicken with Plums (2011) : Dies of an unspecified illness, after she asks her son, Mathieu Amalric, to stop praying for her and to let her die in peace. Her death is represented by showing her exhaling a cloud of cigarette smoke that floats out into the garden where Mathieu is playing his violin for her.• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) : She dies of old age as well as of her wounds after cracking her shell.TV:�"