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Date of birth: 18 June 1952
Birth Place: Rome, Italy
Isabella Rossellini was one of the twin daughters born to actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini in 1952. After growing up in Italy, she came to America when she was19 and studied at Finch College and the New School for Social Research. She then returned to Rome, where she worked as a translator and TV journalist (not unlike her New York-based half-sister Pia Lindström). Just for fun, Rossellini made her first movie appearance in 1976, playing a bit in her mother's film A Matter of Time. She found acting to her liking, appearing in several European TV dramas before her first big-screen starring role in 1979's The Meadow. In the early 1980s, Rossellini put her film activities on the back burner to concentrate on her modelling career on behalf of Lancome Cosmetics. After her first marriage (to Hollywood director Martin Scorsese) ended in 1983, she began a relationship with ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom she co-starred in White Nights (1985). She was later involved was filmmaker David Lynch, who cast her in her breakthrough role as a much-abused small-town nightclub singer in Blue Velvet (1986). (Her other romantic partners have included her second husband John Wiedeman -- the father of her daughter Elettra -- and actor Gary Oldman). Rossellini continued seeking out offbeat, challenging film roles into the '90s, including Anna Maria Ermody in the controversial Beethoven biopic Immortal Beloved and no-nonsense frontierswoman Big Nose Kate in Wyatt Earp (both 1994). She also starred in Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci's delicious drama Big Night in 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Paris, je t'aime (2006) (filming) .... The wife (segment "12th arrondissement")
Have You Heard? (2006) (filming) .... Gloria Guinness
All Fall Down (2006) (filming)
Fiesta del chivo, La (2005) .... Urania
"Legend of Earthsea" (2004) (mini) TV Series .... High Priestess Thar
Heights (2004) .... Liz
King of the Corner (2004) .... Rachel Spivak
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004) .... Mme. Moitessier
The Saddest Music in the World (2003) .... Lady Port-Huntley
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) .... Mme. Moitessier
Monte Walsh (2003) (TV) .... 'Countess' Martine
"Napoléon" (2002) (mini) TV Series .... Joséphine de Beauharnais
Roger Dodger (2002) .... Joyce
Empire (2002) .... La Colombiana
Cielo cade, Il (2000) .... Katchen
Don Quixote (2000) (TV) .... The Duchess
The Impostors (1998) .... The Veiled Queen
Merlin (1998/II) (TV) .... Nimue
Left Luggage (1998) .... Mrs. Kalman
The Odyssey (1997) (TV) .... Athena
Crime of the Century (1996) (TV) .... Anna Hauptmann
The Funeral (1996) .... Clara
Big Night (1996) .... Gabriella
Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996) (VG)
Croce e delizia (1995) .... Henriette
Immortal Beloved (1994) .... Anna Marie Erdody
The Gift (1994) (TV)
Wyatt Earp (1994) .... Big Nose Kate
Fearless (1993) .... Laura Klein
The Innocent (1993) .... Maria
The Pickle (1993) (uncredited) .... Planet Cleveland Woman
Death Becomes Her (1992) .... Lisle Von Rhoman
Lies of the Twins (1991) (TV) .... Rachel Marks
Caccia alla vedova (1991) .... Rosanna
Dames galantes (1990) .... Victoire
Ivory Hunters (1990) (TV) .... Maria DiConti
Wild at Heart (1990) .... Perdita Durango
Red Riding Hood (1989) .... Lady Jean
Cousins (1989) .... Maria Hardy
Zelly and Me (1988) .... Mademoiselle Zelly
Siesta (1987) .... Marie
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) .... Madeleine Regency
Oci ciornie (1987) (uncredited) .... La Signora
Blue Velvet (1986) .... Dorothy Valens
White Nights (1985) .... Darya Greenwood
Papocchio, Il (1980) .... Isabella
Prato, Il (1979) .... Eugenia
A Matter of Time (1976) .... Sister Pia
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