Isabella rossellini

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (Rome, June 18, 1952), better known as Isabella Rosellini, is an Italian actress, model, and philanthropist.

Biography

Daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini. Half-sister of Pia Lindström, twin sister of Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, younger sister of Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, half-sister of Gil Rossellini, niece of Renzo Rossellini, cousin of Franco Rossellini, (biological) mother of Elettra Rossellini (Elettra Ingrid Wiedeman) and (adoptive) mother of Roberto Rossellini. She is divorced from filmmaker Martin Scorsese (1979-1982) and model and filmmaker Jon Wiedeman, she is the ex-partner of filmmaker David Lynch, actor and filmmaker Gary Oldman, and theater producer Gregory Mosher.

At the age of five, she suffered from appendicitis, undergoing surgery. She received a liberal Catholic upbringing. At eleven, she was diagnosed with scoliosis. During her youth, at 16, while still living in Italy, Isabella recognizes in her biography that she was date raped. Regarding this event, she declared to the newspaper El País : “ It's not that they threatened me with a knife and forced me on the street by some strangers. My case occurs a lot in countries where a "no" as an answer it is actually interpreted as a "yes". When you say no to a man in Italy and it's true, as I did, because for me that word often represents a whole sentence, they don't quite believe it.” Anecdotally, Isabella has played a rape victim three times.

Once established in New York, where she had temporarily worked as a translator and Italian teacher, she began a journalistic career participating with her own space for interviews and reports on the show L'altra Domenica (El otro domingo) for RAI together with Roberto Benigni, with whom he also participated in the film Il Pap'occhio (Vaticano Show). The theme of this film and its satire on the Vatican and the Pope himself led to the excommunication of the entire cast.

She returned to repeat as an actress in her country of origin at the hands of the Taviani brothers in Il Prato, where she played the role of a political theater actress and for which she won the Nastri D& Award #39;Argento for Best New Actress in 1980.

Isabella continued her journalistic side recording her television reports from New York, when a friend introduced her to Bruce Weber; He requested her for a photo shoot that resulted in the cover of Vogue and a radical change in Isabella's life, which made her automatically become one of the most sought-after models in the world.

It was as a result of this new facet that Lancôme (of the L'Oréal Cosmair group) chose her as an exclusive model from 1982 to 1996. In Isabella's words: "It was the easiest way to becoming a billionaire after winning the lottery". But the non-renewal of her contract was notorious, since it was argued that Isabella had exceeded the age limit in which a model could represent Lancôme, all this at a time when women matured in the world of images and society was revaluing like never before.

It is no coincidence that the brand's first intention to do without Isabella was just after the box office success in the summer of 1992 of Death Becomes Her, by Robert Zemeckis, satirical film within the black comedy, in which the actress played a sorceress who provided eternal youth through a potion in exchange for a high price. It is not unreasonable to think that the subliminal impression that the public could have of Lancôme was what prompted her to urgently replace it. In the same year, she participated in Madonna's controversial video, Erotica (clip with high sexual content). This almost costs him losing her contract with Lancôme.

With David Lynch in Cannes (1990).

However, Isabella Rossellini, according to her own book Some of me (1997), categorically refused to leave the firm voluntarily, citing her film career, as Lindsay Owen suggested she do. -Jones, CEO of the ubiquitous company; so her image was not removed from the firm until the end of the contract, at which time Isabella re-emerged in the cosmetics world as vice president of the marketing department of competing firm Lancaster..

Returning to her film career, after her work in Italian cinema, she resumed her work as an actress in the United States with the film White Nights (1985), by Taylor Hackford.

Isabella was turned into a new film icon thanks to her meeting in a restaurant with David Lynch; who offered her the role of Dorothy Vallens in Blue Velvet ( Blue Velvet ), a film for which she won the 1987 Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress and during which filming she had an affair with Lynch. Although it is the role for which she feels most especially satisfied, Lynch's film was a success and scandal in equal parts that caught Isabella completely off guard; In this way, she commented to Alex Kendall in 1988, in an interview published in Spain by the magazine Fotogramas: & # 34; After the first screenings I felt almost totally destroyed. My agent hates the movie. The reaction was so negative that I thought he was going to lynch me. I was a little embarrassed, because then, naturally, I didn't know that the film was going to be such a success. In Italy they released it as something porn. I was ashamed, because I went to a nuns' school and I loved them very much".

Her career continues with minor roles and independent films, highlighting as obvious successes her role as María in Cousins (A touch of infidelity, 1989), a film by Joel Schumacher in which she shines above the entire cast, and of Zelly And Me (1988), an emotional portrait of a governess in charge of a rich girl overprotected by her grandmother.

In March 2016, Isabella Rossellini once again became the face of Lancôme. "She will be a spokesperson, she will share her happiness secrets and her opinion on how to achieve genuine beauty," the firm announced. "It's a great indication of Lancôme's inclusion and celebration of all women."

Filmography

• A Matter Of Time (1976)
• Il Prato (1979, directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
• Il Pap'occhio (1980)
• White Nights (1985)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Oci Ciornie (1987)
• Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
• Siesta (1987)
• Zelly And Me (1988)
• Cousins (1989)
• Red Riding Hood (1989)

At Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (Berlin) during the shooting The Innocent (1992).

• Wild heart (Wild at Heart(1990)
• Ivory Hunters (1990)
• Give me the Galatians (1990)
• Caccia Alla Vedova (1991)
• Lies Of The Twins (1991)
• Death Becomes Her (1992)
• The Pickle (1993)
• The Innocent (1993)
• Fearless (1993)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• Immortal Beloved (1994)
• Croce and delizia (1995)
• Big Night (1996)
• The Funeral (1996)
• Crime of the Century (1996)
• The odyssey (1997)
• Left Luggage (1998)
• Merlin (1998)
• The Impostors (1998)
• Don Quixote (2000)
• Il Sky Cade (2000)
• Empire (2002)
• Roger Dodger (2002)
• Napoleon (2002)
• Monte Walsh (2003)
• The Saddest Music In The World (2003)
• Alias (2003, 2004)
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
• King of the Corner (2004)
• Heights (2004)
• Legend of Earthsea (2004)
• The party of the goat (2005)
• The Architect (2006)
• History of a Crime (2006)
• Two Lovers (2008)
• The Accidental Husband (2008)
• The silent life (2011)
• Three times 20 years (2011)
• Not the detective boy. (2012)
• Enemy (2013)
• Joy: The Name of Success (voz, 2015)
• The Incredible 2 (2018)
• Vita " Virginia (2018)
• Prelude... Il Film (2019)
• Land of Dreams (2021)
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (voz, 2021)
• Silent Retreat
• Spaceman (film of 2022)
• Cat Person

Awards

Golden Globe