Valentina Cortese
Actress

Valentina Cortese Net Worth

Valentina Cortese was a renowned Italian actress who made her movie debut in 1940. She gained international recognition for her roles in Caccia all'uomo (1948) and Tempesta su Parigi (1948), and later starred in Hollywood films such as Thieves' Highway (1949) and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951). She also worked with renowned directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini, and won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award Nomination for her role in La nuit américaine (1973). In addition to her film career, Cortese had a successful stage career, starring in plays such as Schiller's "Mary Stewart" and Wedekind's "Lulu".
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Camera Department
Birth Day January 01, 1923
Birth Place  Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Italy
Age 100 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Aquarius
Other names Valentina Cortesa
Occupation Actress
Years active 1941-1993
Spouse(s) Richard Basehart (m. 1951; div. 1960)
Children Jackie Basehart

💰 Net worth: $800,000 (2024)

Valentina Cortese, a highly talented and versatile individual known for her roles both in front of and behind the camera, has an estimated net worth of $800,000, according to projections for the year 2024. With a successful career spanning decades in the entertainment industry, Cortese has established herself as a well-respected actress and member of the camera department in Italy. Her contributions to the film industry have not only earned her critical acclaim but have also garnered financial success, reflecting her skill and dedication to her craft.

Biography/Timeline

1940

She made her screen debut in Italian films in 1940, leading to her first internationally acclaimed roles in Riccardo Freda's 1948 Italian film Les Misérables with Marcello Mastroianni, in which she played both Fantine and Cosette, and the 1949 British film The Glass Mountain (1949), which led to a number of roles in American films of the period, but continued to make films in Europe with such Directors as Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and François Truffaut.

1948

She signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1948. She starred in Malaya (1949), a Second World War film about smuggling and guerrilla warfare against the Japanese with Spencer Tracy and James Stewart, Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949) with Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Richard Basehart and william Lundigan, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), with Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien. In Europe she starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass (1971), Terry Gilliam's British film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the film Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and the film Sparrow (1993). Her final American film role was in When Time Ran Out (1980).

1951

Born in Milan to a family from Stresa (Piedmont), Cortese married Richard Basehart, her co-star in The House on Telegraph Hill, in 1951, and had one son with him, the actor Jackie Basehart; they divorced in 1960. She never remarried. Jackie Basehart died in Milan in 2015, predeceasing Cortese.

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