Isabella Rossellini

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Isabella Rossellini (2015)

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome ) is an Italian - American actress .

Life

Rossellini with David Lynch at the Cannes Film Festival , 1990

Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini . She has two siblings, an older brother, Roberto Ingmar, and the twin sister Isotta , as well as a smaller half-sister Raffaela (from the relationship between Roberto Rossellini and Sonali Dasgupta) and an older half-sister, Pia Lindström (the daughter of Ingrid Bergman's first marriage to Petter Lindström ). When Isabella Rossellini was five years old, her parents separated. She grew up with a nanny in Rome, in an apartment directly across from her father's. Isabella suffered from scoliosis and had to endure lengthy and painful treatments. She started out as a fashion designer and journalist, at that time she worked mostly in New York.

From 1979 to 1982 Isabella Rossellini was married to the director Martin Scorsese , later to the model Jonathan Wiedemann. She also had long relationships with David Lynch and Gary Oldman . She has two children and is an Italian citizen as well as a US citizen.

Career

From 1982 to 1993 she was a model for the French cosmetics company Lancôme , with which there was a dispute in 1994. Her contract was not renewed, the company believes that she was already too old. Since then, Isabella Rossellini has been producing her own line of cosmetics.

She made her acting debut in 1976 at the side of her mother in Vincente Minnelli's Nina - Just a Matter Of Time (A Matter Of Time) . She then starred in films by Norman Mailer, Robert Zemeckis, Joel Schumacher, John Schlesinger, Peter Weir, Abel Ferrara and Peter Greenaway. After her beginnings with Italian comedies, Isabella Rossellini became internationally known for the films Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart - The Story of Sailor and Lula directed by David Lynch . In Blue Velvet , she played the battered nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens. She can be heard as a singer in the song A Marriage Made In Heaven by the group Tindersticks . In 2005 she made the short film My Dad is 100 Years Old with experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin , a homage to her father Roberto Rossellini.

She presented her directorial debut Green Porno at the Berlinale 2008: eight comic-like short film episodes depict the sex life of earthworms, dragonflies, snails, bees and praying mantises. Isabella Rossellini played numerous animals herself, including a. a snail and a male spider.

At the 2011 Berlinale , she chaired the international jury that awarded the main prize to the Iranian entry Nader and Simin - A Separation . In 2013 she received the Berlinale Camera at the 63rd Berlinale .

In 2017 she published the humorous book Meine Hühner und ich in Germany .

Filmography

With Anthony Hopkins in Berlin while shooting the film The Innocent

Guest appearances

  • 1996: Friends "The One with Frank Jr." - Season 3, Episode 5
  • 2007: 30 Rock - Season 1, episode 12, 13
  • 2013: The Blacklist "The Freelancer (No. 145)" - Season 1, Episode 2

Work with films on DVD

Publications

  • Isabella Rossellini: Some of me . Autobiographical photo documentation (German), from the English by Marion Kagerer, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88814-898-7
  • dies .: looking at me - about pictures and photgraphs . Autobiographical photo documentation (German), from the English by Marion Kagerer, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88814-609-7
  • Isabella Rossellini & Lothar Schirmer : Ingrid Bergman. A life in pictures , Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, ISBN 3-8296-0648-6 .
  • Me and my chickens. with drawings by the author and photographs by Patrice Casanova. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8296-0793-3 .

literature

  • Gero von Boehm : Isabella Rossellini. September 7, 2003 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 316–328

Web links

Commons : Isabella Rossellini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Isabella Rossellini  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ - Article on news.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.news.de
  2. ^ New York Media LLC: New York Magazine . New York Media, LLC, August 9, 1982 ( google.de [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Isabella Rossellini: In Defense of Fallaci . In: The New York Times . 
  4. ↑ Berlinale 2011: Rossellini becomes jury president - on news.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.news.de
  5. ↑ Green Porno ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Sundance Channel @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sundancechannel.com
  6. ↑ Green Porno ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the arte magazine short circuit @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  7. ↑ 63rd Berlinale: Here comes the bear at stern.de, January 28, 2013 (accessed on January 28, 2013)
  8. ↑ http://showroom.schirmer-mosel.com/product_info.php?cPath=39&products_id=860&language=de&osCsid=6782cfdn6ghialoblh3ogip8k3 accessed on April 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rossellini, Isabella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rossellini, Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy