Isabella Rossellini
Italian-American actress (born 1952)
- Born June 18, 1952
- 5 movies
Isabella Rossellini, born on 18 June 1952 in Rome, is an Italian and American actress, model and filmmaker, the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and the director Roberto Rossellini. A longtime face of Lancôme, she became a film star as the tormented nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Her career has since ranged from Hollywood comedy to European art cinema and her own short films about animal behaviour, and in 2025 she received her first Academy Award nomination, for Conclave.
Isabella Rossellini appears in 5 films in The Rerun, from 1986 to 2024. Most of that work is in thriller, drama and mystery.
Known for
- Conclave (2024), Sister Agnes. Her short, pointed role earned her an Oscar nomination.
- Blue Velvet (1986), Dorothy Vallens. The nightclub singer role in David Lynch’s thriller remains her best known screen work.
- Death Becomes Her (1992), Lisle von Rhuman. She won a Saturn Award for the comic fantasy.
- Wild at Heart (1990), Perdita Durango. A second collaboration with director David Lynch.
- Green Porno (2008), Creator. A short series she wrote, directed and starred in, playing various animals.
Career
Rossellini became Lancôme’s exclusive spokesmodel in 1982 and made her first American film, White Nights, in 1985. Blue Velvet (1986) won her the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, and she worked with Lynch again as Perdita Durango in Wild at Heart (1990). The 1990s brought Death Becomes Her (1992), Peter Weir’s Fearless (1993) and Big Night (1996).
She created Green Porno for the Sundance Channel in 2008, a series of short films about the mating habits of insects and sea creatures in which she plays the animals. Recent years have brought a run of strong supporting work, including Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera (2023) and Sister Agnes, the watchful nun in Edward Berger’s Conclave (2024), which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 97th Academy Awards.
Where to start
- Conclave (2024): a few lines, perfectly placed, in a Vatican thriller.
- Blue Velvet (1986): the brave, disturbing performance that defined her as an actress.
- Death Becomes Her (1992): a camp comic cameo as the purveyor of eternal youth.
- Green Porno (2008): the most original thing she has made, and very funny.
Movies
Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Isabella Rossellini been in?
- Isabella Rossellini appears in Conclave (2024), Enemy (2013), Wyatt Earp (1994), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Blue Velvet (1986) on The Remote.
- When was Isabella Rossellini born?
- Isabella Rossellini was born on 18 June 1952.
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