Isabella Rossellini

At 72 years old, Isabella Rossellini has this physical status:

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model.

The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian neorealist film director Roberto Rossellini, she is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet (1986) and Death Becomes Her (1992).

Rossellini also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century (1996).

Early life

Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, who was of Swedish and German descent, and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, who was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. She has three siblings from her mother: her fraternal twin sister Isotta Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of Italian literature; a brother, Robertino Ingmar Rossellini; and a half-sister, Pia Lindström, who formerly worked on television and is from her mother's first marriage with Petter Lindström. She has four other siblings from her father's two other marriages: Romano (who died at age nine), Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella. Growing up, she received "a liberal Catholic education".

Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella and Paris. She underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five. At 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis. In order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts and surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones. Consequently, she has incision scars on her back and shin.

At 19, she went to New York City, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter. She also appeared intermittently on L'altra Domenica (The Other Sunday), a TV show featuring Roberto Benigni. However, she decided not to stay full-time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese (1979–1982), whom she met when she interviewed him for RAI.

Personal life

Rossellini holds dual Italian and United States citizenship.

She was married to filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982. After her marriage to Scorsese ended, she was married to Jon Wiedemann from 1983 to 1986.

She has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (born 1983) and an adopted son, Roberto Rossellini (born 1993).

Filmmaker David Lynch and Rossellini were a couple from 1986/1987 to 1990/1991. Rossellini was engaged to English actor Gary Oldman from 1994 to 1996.

She has always lived near her fraternal twin sister Isotta Ingrid, while growing up in Rome, Italy or residing in New York City.

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Career

When she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue and by Bill King for American Vogue, she started modeling at the age of 28. She has worked with many other well-known photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson, Norman Parkinson, Eve Arnold, Francesco Scavullo, Denis Piel, and Robert Mapplethorpe during her career. Her image has appeared in such magazines as Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Elle. Portrait of a Woman, a woman's photographic exhibition held at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris in March 1988.

Rossellini's modeling career led her into cosmetics, where she became the first spokesmodel for Lancôme in 1982, replacing Nancy Dutiel in the United States and Carol Alt in Europe. In 1990, she was involved in product design for the fragrance Trésor at Lancôme. She was barred from Lancôme's publicity in 1996 for being "too old." Francoise Lehmann, Lancôme's new female CEO, recruited her as a global brand ambassador for the company in 2016.

Rossellini modeled for Madonna's controversial book Sex in October 1992. Rossellini appeared in Madonna's music video for her hit song "Erotica" which came out in fall 1992.

In 2004, Rossellini became the first brand ambassador for the Italian Silversea Cruises company, appearing in print ads and on their website. "Isabella is the ultimate embodiment of Silversea's exclusive level of elegance, glamour, and sophistication," Barbara Muckermann, senior vice president of international marketing and communications in 2004, said at the time.

In the 1976 film A Matter of Time, Rossellini made her film debut by a brief appearance as a nun opposite her mother. She appeared in Il Prato, a 1979 film, in 1981, and then in Renzo Arbore's film Il pap'occhio with Martin Scorsese.

Rossellini was in her first American film, White Nights (1985), following her mother's death in 1982. Dorothy Vallens' role as the tortured nightclub singer in the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, in which she also contributed to her own singing, was followed by her follower. Cousins (1989), Death Becomes Her (1992), Fearless (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994), among other notable film roles during this period. "The One With Frank Jr." was a series on Friends in 1996. She appeared as herself in an episode of Friends.

Rossellini was a recurring character on the television show Alias in 2003. She appeared in the Canadian film The Saddest Music in the World, directed by Guy Maddin in the same year. In 2004, she appeared as High Priestess Thar in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea, and director Robert Lieberman said Rossellini "brings a very big persona to the screen." She has a lot of beauty. To be this kind of mother superior type while still not being entirely dour and unattractive, we needed someone with a sense of authority.

Rossellini appeared in several television documentaries in 2006. She narrated a two-hour television special on Italy for the Discovery Channel's Discovery Atlas series in the Discovery Channel's Discovery Atlas series. Then, along Segway PT entrepreneur Dean Kamen, discussed her debut and present on an episode of Iconoclasts, a Sundance Channel (known as SundanceTV from 2014 to 2015), a non-profit film network established by film industry veteran Robert Redford. The Sundance Channel bought My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a tribute to Rossellini's father. Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ingrid Bergman appeared in almost every role in the film, including Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and her mother, Ingrid Bergman. Isotta Ingrid, Rossellini's twin sister, slammed the short film for being "inappropriate" in honor.

In 2007, Rossellini guest appeared on two episodes of the television show 30 Rock, playing Alec Baldwin's character's ex-wife. Rossellini studied animal behaviour at Hunter College in New York, and the Sundance Channel hired her to produce a short film for The Green Project at the University of New York. In a 2013 interview, Rossellini discussed:

The first series of Green Porno debuted in 2008 on YouTube and two more seasons were released; there are 18 episodes in the series. Rossellini, who was in charge of the scripts, helped with the creation, directed the scenes, and was the main actor in the film. While commentary is included, she performs out the mating rituals and reproductive behaviour of numerous animals in each episode.

Green Porno was followed by two other animal-themed television shows: Seduce Me: The Spawn of Green Porno and Mammas, which was followed by two other animal-themed television shows: Me: The Spawn of Green Porno is a five-episode online series that premiered in mid-2010 and delves into animal courtship. Rossellini wrote about and appeared in the film Green Porno; she is also a producer of the film. "I always wanted to make films about animals," Rossellini said in 2010, "I never thought there was a huge audience for sex," Rossellini said in 2010.

Mammas debuted in the United States on May 12, 2013, the first Mother's Day weekend in the United States, and it's a celebration of the animal world's maternal aspects. Rossellini is once more the leading actor and appears in animal adaptations, such as spiders and hamsters. "First of all, it's about diversity," Rossellini said in a 2013 interview as part of Mammas' study process: "First of all, it's about plurality." If I was talking about motherhood, I would find instances of ten species that don't get pregnant in the stomach but rather in the mouth or back. Or animals that abandon their children all together so that I don't have ten stories that are too similar."

Rossellini appeared in Enemy, a film co-production of the Toronto International Film Festival, which was on display at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). During a TIFF interview, Rossellini praised the film: "I love the subtlety of the film." It reminded me of Kafka. It's highly metaphysical, but it's also a good thriller. "It's made me leap up from my seat at the end." In Vlad Kozlov's Silent Life, a film-length adaptation of Rudolph Valentino's little film Daysdreams, Rossellini also played Rudolph Valentino's mother. The film was supposed to be out in 2012 but as of February 2014, Kozlov's film has yet to be announced.

In 2011, Rossellini was the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In April 2015, she was announced as the President of the Jury for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival's Uncertain Regard section.

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